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It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.