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.

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

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.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.