[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

As a rule, governments monitor people.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?

Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.