I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

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.

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.

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.

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

Everybody has their reasons.

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.