For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.