Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

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.

Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

[People] don't know the talent and I want to show them.