Saakashvili Quotes

#1. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will use all legal and illegal means possible to remain in power. People are being threatened to prevent them from collaborating with the opposition. At the same time, he is terrorizing the business world, which prevents the opposition from gaining any funding.

Irakli Okruashvili

#2. America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#3. I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

Irakli Okruashvili

#4. I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

Irakli Okruashvili

#5. I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.

Irakli Okruashvili

#6. I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#7. Mikhail Saakashvili would do everything within his power to destroy me, first as a politician and then as a person. All government authorities, including the police, the military and the courts, are controlled by those in power.

Irakli Okruashvili

#8. Free financial advice: buy life insurance for Saakashvili from US and UK insurance companies.

Evgeni Kostitsyn

#9. As long as [Mikhail] Saakashvili is president, I will be unable to prove my innocence in Georgia. Seen in this light, there is a positive aspect to my arrest in Germany. It will be much easier for me to refute the charges here.

Irakli Okruashvili

#10. I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#11. Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#12. Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#13. With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

Mikheil Saakashvili

#15. Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#16. Investors feel very comfortable working in Georgia

Mikhail Saakashvili

#17. Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#18. For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#19. 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.

Mikhail Saakashvili

#20. First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#21. 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.

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

Mikhail Saakashvili

#23. If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

Mikheil Saakashvili

#27. 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.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#28. Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#29. I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#30. The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

Mikheil Saakashvili