I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

He who shoots first laughs last.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

View health as an investment, not an expense.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.