American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

I am of the opinion that we shouldn't turn away from Europe. We have to find ways to revitalize our relations.

The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.

For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

An empty mind is like a mirror that reflects reality in minute detail.

Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

I do not judge the universe.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

Women are still second-class citizens.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

Atlanta is not the South.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.