Words matter. These are the best Bidzina Ivanishvili Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.
I get no pleasure from politics; it’s not in my character.
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 do yoga every day, some sport, have a meal once a day, eat some fruit, and drink one glass of wine. And once a month I gather together my close friends. But my wife and I do not like conspicuous luxury.
In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn’t survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.
Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.
Any private security is a joke in a country where you’re up against your own government.
With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.
All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.
I’ve never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.
I travel as much as I can and meet people.
I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.
The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who’s controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.
Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.
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.
My only hobby is going for walks outdoors.
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It’s absolutely absent.
