My only hobby is going for walks outdoors.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

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.

I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.