The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

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.

And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year.

Everything we own tells too much about us.

THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER. A WORLD AT PRAYER IS A WORLD AT PEACE.