I heard about this on Glenn Beck's radio program this week and it had me cheering as I drove down the road in my car. I have to wonder what the others driving around me thought... if they noticed.

Mikheil Saakashvili is the president of Georgia, a former Soviet-block country. The government of Georgia has moved dramatically toward that of the West since the fall of the Iron Curtain in the early 1990s. Saakashvili is no exception of that movement.

Here's the quotation I heard on the radio that had me cheering. Saakashvili was talking to a group of businessmen over dinner and said, "The government is going to help you in the best way possible, by doing nothing for you, by getting out of your way. Well, I exaggerate but you understand. Of course we will provide you with infrastructure, and help by getting rid of corruption, but you have all succeeded by your own initiative and enterprise, so you should congratulate yourselves."

Wow! Such a powerful, conservative statement from the head of a state that was formerly part of a socialist empire. Why can't we have someone like this guy running for president in the USA?!

You can read more about this guy in this Wall Street Journal article.