Today's Quote
"There are no bad coalitions, only bad people that make them.
"There are no bad coalitions, only bad people that make them.
"To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege.
"Politicians cannot stand like graven images all the time, producing messages and speeches.
"Today I explained this is not Europe, where wars are fought on schedule - let's eat, let's sleep a while and then go on with the war.
"They are not Muslims, they are monsters": British Prime Minister David Cameron in a statement on the killing of British aid worker David Haines by Islamic State militants.
"A commissioner is supposed to act in the European rather than his or her national interest but a well-placed commissioner can and does pass invaluable information back to the home country.
"Well, I have a message for the Scots: Be afraid, be very afraid.
"It is not important if the cat is black or white, it is important that it catches mice.
"The Bulgarian nation gives power when it is in love.
"He [Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev] might promise as much as he wants to, it is his right and I am not meddling.
"If previous government could be best described by the title of Dostoyevsky's “Demons”, the next will be best described by “The Idiot”.
"To talk on that subject on a Sunday afternoon is possible only if one is heavily drunk.
“The bank under conservatorship is not the village grocery store where the auditor puts the “Closed” sign until he finishes counting the cheese barrels.
"The cabinet was certainly announced with exaggerated enthusiasm.
"Barekov is like a cat: he dies and rises from the dead and in the end it will be very, very interesting.
“I have been elected leader, not a magician.
„The true “backroom schemers” hid in a warm place behind my corpulent frame.
"The cabinet is not resigning because of the DPS's press conference on Thursday [July 05, 2014].
The journalist-turned-politician Nikolay Barekov on the latest developments in the row with his coalition partners:
"The Bulgarian National Bank is behaving like a hedgehog in a condom shop, and we will have to bear the consequences for years.
"If a year ago [Prime Minister] Plamen Oresharski had behaved as well as he did now, if he is (sic!) being pressured.
Google Street View is again on its way through Bulgaria
Bulgaria has the Largest Gray Economy in Europe