Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.

If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.

I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.