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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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"A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving."

"As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko."

"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you."

"I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious."

"If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem."

"Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today."

"Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching."

"Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure."

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

"Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good - we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know - and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them."
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"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."

"Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."

"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."

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