Eduard Shevardnadze

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.