Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes

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.

Afghanistan cannot be a burden on the international community and it has to become an asset.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.

There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

We seek to move from aid to trade.

I never got one cent from the government or from China so I am very independent.

If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

Yes, I worked hard to put together an experimental show on a budget of zero. But I was not being exploited by anyone. I was in charge.

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

Does anyone seriously contend that any nation can fend for itself?

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

To me, I don't have any problems. I don't have economic problems. I have an independent life.

I pay for my own things, and that's how I've always been since I was 15.

My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.

We certainly would be happy for more help, but not at the price of condescension and arrogance. If the Europeans believe they can afford to be less committed in Somalia, please - we can deal with it ourselves.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.

International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.