30 Quotes by Ivan Krastev

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.