In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Life has a way of answering questions you didn't even ask.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, “I am literally the luckiest person in the world.

Fine, just don’t eat my mom, okay? She’s had a bad enough life without becoming the Bride of Dracula.” – Nick