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I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

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.