America is very important economically. It's certainly, by far, the most important country in the world.

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.

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

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

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.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.