For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

Good becomes perfect, but perfect is an illusion. And illusions are like all spells—temporary and soon broken. And when that happens, feelings change.

Alice! You know I love you like a sister!""Words." she growled.

Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor.

Had I ever truly been free? Though I wasn’t shipped off to different countries did that make me any less of a prisoner?

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

I blog; therefore, I am.

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.