Bulgaria's roads are a delayed death sentence.
Diana Rusinova, European Center for Transport Policies
I am not going to spoil the kids' celebration with talking about Bulgarian politics.
President Rumen Radev during a school visit, when asked to comment on Russia's deadly attack on Sumy on Palm Sunday
They have no choice – everyone will be with me either now, or in the next parliament. From then on, they will work with Peevski, because the Bulgarian people have said so. I will guarantee Bulgaria's stability, I will not let our country fall into the abyss.
Delyan Peevski, leader of DPS-New Beginning
This government was born in treason and is doomed to die in disgrace, and very quickly at that.
Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of Vazrazhdane, on the GERB dominated government supported by the BSP, the There Is Such a People party, and the Alliance for Freedom and Rights
Driving Bulgaria into the eurozone is a crime.
Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of Vazrazhdane, or Revival, party
I was in my office in the Finance Ministry and, just like the rest of the Bulgarian people, we celebrated. If I remember correctly, there were fireworks in Sofia and across the country.
Asen Vasilev, Changes Continued, on the day Boyko Borisov was arrested, in 2022
The state has been seized by Delyan Peevski's mafia clan. His appetite for devouring political parties is stronger than ever.
Asen Vasilev, Changes Continued
We should not think naively that this audacity on steroids in politics will disappear on its own. We are responsible for Bulgaria's development as a democratic country.
President Rumen Radev
The US president himself, and also anyone from David Cameron to Viktor Orban used to come and learn at our border: zero migration. The Balkan route used to be closed.
Boyko Borisov, GERB chairman, on Bulgaria's security during his terms as prime minister
We are liberals, to the incredulity of those who want to smear us.
Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of the Vazrazhdane pro-Russian party
It appears I raised you as men with rabbit hearts.
Former Socialist leader Kornelia Ninova to the new caretaker leadership of the BSP
Let the prosecutors probe whatever they want. They may also call in the dog.
Changes Continued co-leader Asen Vasilev on an ongoing investigation of alleged corruption in Bulgarian Customs
We pray for rain.
Newly-elected Patriarch Daniil on July heat wave
Top of the agenda is the natural disasters. The political ones come second.
President Rumen Radev
I do believe this National Assembly can produce a viable technical [sic] government.
General Atanas Atanasov, leader of the rightwing DSB
I do not comment on the panic attacks of any political leader. This issue should be addressed by a doctor.
President Rumen Radev on the leader of the DPS Delyan Peevski's assertion that the he wanted to yield Bulgaria to Putin
We are on the downwards slide and it is well oiled. The idea that by staying in opposition we will attract some voters back is absolutely naive.
I have difficulties to establish whether this is a provocation or wet dreams.
Radan Kanev, an EMP candidate for the CC-DB, on the allegation that Boyko Borisov wants to become president while Delyan Peevski is prime minister
In fact Hristo Ivanov wanted to be president, he wanted me to be prime minister, and Borisov would be a retiree.
Delyan Peevski, co-leader of the DPS, on Asen Vasilev's allegation Boyko Borisov wanted to retire as president while Peevski was prime minister
He who takes wads of cash will perish by wads of cash.
Boyko Borisov on the scandal involving Boyko Rashkov, former interior minister. Rashkov's dog appeared in leaked photos along wads of cash supposedly owned by two businessmen allegedly involved in contraband
We must not look as though we are not determined to go on with reforms.
Hristo Ivanov, Co-Chairman of CC-DB
GERB has a single leader. If I meet with 5-6 people I will be outnumbered. These people do not behave. If you were in a meeting where Kiril Petkov breaks bottles and glass on the table, would you want a leaders' meeting?
Boyko Borisov, leader of GERB, on why he avoids meeting with the leaders of the CC-DB coalition
The Bulgarian agriculture sector is in shambles.
Kiril Vatev, agriculture minister
It is crucial to rock the tree, a rotten apple or two might fall.
Judge Neli Kutskova on the links between organised crime and the judiciary exposed after the assassination of Martin "Notary" Bozhanov
This is an aggressive offensive against statehood, history and memory.
President Rumen Radev on the Soviet Army Monument in Sofia
I am baffled that rightwing economists defend Asen Vasilev's state budget draft. My only explanation is that he has hypnotised them to believe that this is a good budget. Have you noticed that Asen Vasilev never blinks?
Delyan Dobrev, GERB
Yes, I was informed that during the street violence the interior minister was at the movies. At this time there was a meeting of the Council of Ministers and the deputy minister was present instead. I had to tell him to leave the meeting and do his job.
Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on the whereabouts of Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov during the violent clashes between football fans and the police in Sofia
I was neither in a bar, nor in a disco.
Our homegrown Bolsheviks wanted to organise an October Revolution.
Gen Atanas Atanasov, chairman of DSB, on the unsuccessful no-confidence vote against the government
We will have to grab the devil's tail to drag this country out of the swamp.
Finance Minister Asen Vasilev
Corruption is the gravest problem in Bulgaria's power engineering. And it is a fact because the greatest part of the industry is owned by the state.
We have laws already. What are we ranting about? All tarts woke up 16 years later to remember they were raped. Like the case of that American film director whom they turned a monkey into.
Former chairman of the National Assembly Culture Committee Vezhdi Rashidov
Sofia must be hospitable to the people of Sofia rather than the Italians, Germans and Englishmen who come in weekends to have a beer along Vitosha Boulevard.
Vanya Grigorova, candidate for the Sofia mayoralty
I want to make it perfectly clear that Ukraine insists on continuing this war, and that the bill is being paid by the whole of Europe.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev during the inauguration of the Rozhen Flagpole
Radev swings between being a war hawk and a dove of peace.
Kornelia Ninova, Chairwoman of the BSP
In Bulgaria's right wing, there is a conflict between the families of the former State Security and the genuine rightwing people.
We started a new political transition and we need wider support.
Hristo Ivanov, leader of Yes Bulgaria, on negotiations with DPS MP Delyan Peevski, sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act
Do you want to take DNA from all children in Sofia?
Boyko Borisov on his refusal of a paternity test over alleged offspring supposedly living in luxury in Barcelona
People overestimate us: we are neither that omnipotent, nor that evil.
GERB MP Toma Bikov
Since yesterday afternoon a drone has been hovering around my terrace and has entered it.
Yasen Todorov, deputy director of the National Investigations Service
I was proposed (someone said, by Boyko Borisov) to become ambassador to Israel or Turkey. I did not take this seriously.
Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev
All the prosecutor general does is talk about me. He thinks I am afraid of him. I do not get scared easily.