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Compared to the Republic of Kosovo, we are in the Stone Age.

Shteryu Nozharov, economist, on Bulgaria's e-government (or the lack of it)

To all the meme makers out there: I see you. I like you. I won't search for your IPs.

Georgi Kandev, Secretary General of the Interior Ministry, jokes about his online notoriety

I now drive my Skoda on my own, because I don't want an innocent man to get hurt. They deliberately turned me into a target, now people are checking my usual routes. I am telling you – if something ever happens to me, it will be politically motivated.

Boyko Borisov, GERB, after Rumen Radev's government removed his state-provided security

What really bugs me is our belief that we cannot achieve anything important.

Eurovision winner DARA

It seems to me that the people in the new government are just discovering what a market economy is. As if they have entered a spaceship and are now wondering what all these buttons and levers do.

Nikola Yankov, economist

We are going to take traffic police and speed cameras out of the shrubs. We are all for prevention, not for collecting speeding fines. We are not the National Revenue Agency.

Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev

No one will use the National Security Agency as a transportation company.

Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev on removing state security protection  from Boyko Borisov and Delyan Peevski

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You are violating my personal space.Interim Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov responding to journalists when the crisis surrounding the legitimacy on his position will end
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It happens all the time. In parliament, they fight, pull and curse one another. After 5-10 minutes in the assembly hall, you need a psychotherapist.Boyko Borisov, GERB leader
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Rumen Radev will reshuffle the cards of the political establishment.Kornelia Ninova, former chair of the BSP, on the ex-president's decision to resign and enter active politics
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The protests should be neither underestimated, nor overestimated.Rumyana Bachvarova, GERB, before mass rallies toppled the GERB-led coalition government
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He would come to my house. He would enter through the garage and hide in the attic. Peevski was after him. I was saving him.
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I let my ministers attend events with Radev, but they do not want to go.Boyko Borisov, GERB leaderHe's just a friend's kid.
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All that was left of Sofia's supposed dream team are the dreams. The rats have abandoned ship. Only the mayor and his banner have remained.Boyko Borisov, GERB leader, on Sofia's mayor Vasil Terziev
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When all Bulgarians start spending their summer holidays on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, then we will have enough money to raise doctors' wages.Boyko Borisov, leader of GERB
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The practice of purchasing icons as a means to reduce traffic accidents started under Kiril Petkov's government. Its interior minister actually approved the purchase of Ascension of the Christ icons.
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Bulgaria's roads are a delayed death sentence.Diana Rusinova, European Center for Transport PoliciesI am not going to spoil the kids' celebration with talking about Bulgarian politics.
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