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The government's action plan was drafted using Sigma AI.

Luybomir Stefanov, political scientist

People who just yesterday denied the existence of fascism in Bulgaria have suddenly discovered that there is indeed neo-Nazi activity here.

Journalist Aleksandar Simov, after it transpired that the five teenagers were affiliated with an extremist rightwing group

Instead of criticising the government's action plan, the opposition should review their agendas through the years.

The people now need bread and circuses. There is no bread in the budget, but the people will be given circuses.

Diana Damyanova, PR expert

We cannot possibly govern for 100 years, but in 100 years, we are going to be in the textbooks.

Milen Trifonov, MP for Progressive Bulgaria

Progressive Bulgaria continues to act like a presidency. It only criticises and makes excuses.

Boyko Borisov, GERB

Not all pensioners will starve to death because they receive 2 euros less a month.

Konstantin Prodanov, MP for Progressive Bulgaria

Progressive Bulgaria will fight the oligarchy by stealing from pensioners?

Asen Vasilev, Changes Continued

Progressive Bulgaria does not mean a progressive tax system.

Aleksandar Pulev, Economy Minister, on calls for abandoning flat tax rates in Bulgaria

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.

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

If anyone thinks that they toppled me from power, they are wrong. We toppled ourselves after we successfully finished our job.

Boyko Borisov, GERB, on the December 2025 mass protests that forced his government out of power

Until March everything was fine, but then some aberrations occurred.

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

Are Xi Jinping and Putin younger than me?

Boyko Borisov on whether he is not too outdated to appeal to Gen Z

The result of the general election will be what it will be.

Toshko Yordanov, There Is Such a People party

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

Radev is the absolute alternative of spinelessness, machinations and corruption.

Anton Kutev, former spokesman of caretaker governments appointed by Radev

We are many, they cannot stop the wave.

Rumen Radev announces that he resigns to launch his own party

The protests should be neither underestimated, nor overestimated.

Rumyana Bachvarova, GERB, before mass rallies toppled the GERB-led coalition government

Snap elections are the only way forward.

President Rumen Radev

Who ordered this abomination?

Asen Vasilev, Changes Continued, during rushed discussion on the scandalous state budget that provoked Bulgaria's largest mass protests since 1997

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.

Boyko Borisov, on former banker Tsvetan Vasilev, who has been a fugitive in Serbia

Even breaking up with your girlfriend via text is bad taste.

Boris Bonev, Save Sofia, on Mayor Vasil Terziev's decision to fire the city chief architect by phone

I let my ministers attend events with Radev, but they do not want to go.

Boyko Borisov, GERB leader

He's just a friend's kid.

Boyko Borisov on a Wall Street Journal report claiming he met with Donald Trump Jr and offered to sell him shares in the Turkish Stream pipeline in exchange for lifting the Magnitsky Act sanctions on Bulgarians

If someone really believes that we are capable of paying for an article in the Wall Street Journal, he has seriously overestimated us.

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

Bulgarian tourism is very reliable in regards to technical maintenance when it comes to inspection and control. This will become clear from the inspections that will be carried out.

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

Bulgaria's next big goal is to become the richest country in the Balkans.

Denitsa Sacheva, GERB, on Bulgaria's planned adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026

It will become increasingly difficult to lie to the EU about what is actually going on in Bulgaria.

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.

Interior Minister Daniel Mitov on why the government planned to buy thousands of icons to distribute among drivers to prevent traffic accidents

The rot consuming the Interior Ministry runs deep.

Kostadin Kostadinov, Vazrazhdane, or Revival, on the death of a suspect in custody

It wouldn't be that chaotic if I were the organiser.

Ekaterina Yordanova, GERB, who, according to some reports, was behind the protest of public transit drivers in Sofia

It's simple. The boy is incapable of doing anything properly. In two years, he hasn't solved a single issue – garbage, traffic gams, anything.

Boyko Borisov, GERB, on Sofia's mayor, Vasil Terziev

All the most 'capable' people of GERB can do is to punish the people of Sofia.

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