A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong.

When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for their lives and instead, begin to pursue all nonentities of life, God cannot but be frustrated

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip