Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

I am of the opinion that we shouldn't turn away from Europe. We have to find ways to revitalize our relations.

The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.

For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.

A true messenger lives a burdened life. If he is the Lord’s vessel, he carries in his heart a burden for souls none can share but those who know it firsthand.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.