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

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.

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.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

You are such a kind and caring man, and so sizzling hot and studly. Please, please don’t go nutty on me.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.

Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.