International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

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.

Let me be clear. I applaud self love. I appreciate self value. But if you're not capable of loving another person just as much... you will never experience true love.

Live, love and enjoy the present moment. This moment is the pearl of your precious life.

Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.