“Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.”

Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

A difficult regional situation doesn’t justify one man’s determination to hold onto power. It’s clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

I had to choose: Either leave the country, where it’s become dangerous for me, or go on the offensive.

Europe and America should judge Georgia’s leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.

What you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you’re really selling is your life.

I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.