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Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by Eduard Shevardnadze on topics like georgia, foreign, provide

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

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on address
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  • Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on disappear
    1
  • The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on committed
    1
  • I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on allowed
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  • I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on plan
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  • But the Americans have no extra money.

    They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on assistance
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  • It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on absolutely
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  • But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on foreign
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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.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on condition
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  • 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.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on prepared
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  • Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on prospects
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  • True, other countries are helping us.

    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.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on count
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  • About Eduard Shevardnadze

    Name Eduard Shevardnadze
    Quotes 31 quotations
    Profession Politician
    Birthday October 16
    About Minister of Internal Affairs of the Georgian SSR from 1967 till 1972. First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia) from 1972 to 1985. Soviet minister of foreign affairs from 1985 to 1990. President of Georgia from 1995 to 2003.
    Top topics georgia, foreign, provide, world, impossible
  • I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on decision
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  • But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on corruption
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  • I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on avoid
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  • When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on completely
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  • I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on actions
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  • To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on found
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  • They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests.

    But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on dance
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  • In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on dealing
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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.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on achieve
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  • I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on foreign
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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.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on citizens
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  • I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on politicians
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  • We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on nato
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  • I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on bloodshed
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  • Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on corruption
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  • 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.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on count
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  • No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on duties
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  • As for myself, I was never against Russia.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on russia
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  • You know in the West they support realistic forces.

    — Eduard Shevardnadze on forces
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  • Related Topics

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