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

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.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

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.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.

No generation can escape history.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

I think conservatives should be confident in our beliefs and go push them everywhere we can and go to non-traditional communities. It's a no-brainer.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.