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"I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."
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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
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"You know in the West they support realistic forces."
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"I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation."
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"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."
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"But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out."
Anger

"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."
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"The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems."
Problems

"Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union."
Being

"We also have a real opportunity to join NATO."
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"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
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"Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader."
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