I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

I established my bank in 1988.

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

It's fun to pretend you're a little kid, you get to use your imagination and live in a world that's not real.

Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.