I am no politician.

I'm a fatalist.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

I risked my life.

People are most important.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

I have a vision, and I know I’m right.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one’s own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

Without a single shot we’ve managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.

My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.