Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

Is a figment of our imagination actually reality coming to life?

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

I accept my body and its defects.I accept my characterand its weaknesses.I love myself as a perfect partof a perfect Whole.

For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.

Since she moved in, Carter found himself in the mood for a lot of things he hadn't been before. Crispy salmon wasn't one of them.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.