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

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.

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

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

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

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

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