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

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

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

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

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

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.