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

Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

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

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

You know in the West they support realistic forces.

Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

True, other countries are helping us. 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.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

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

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

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

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.

The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.

When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

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

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

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

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

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

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

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

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.