We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

Investors feel very comfortable working in Georgia

America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.