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

Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian Politician

Diplomacy, Years

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

James Reston, American Journalist

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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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

"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."

Leadership

"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."

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"As for myself, I was never against Russia."

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"Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good."

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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."

"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

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"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."

"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."

"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."

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

"But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely."

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

"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."

"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."

"As for myself, I was never against Russia."

"Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good."