Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.