The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

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.

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.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Vote in a national election.

Charity should always be a constant.

When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

Very successful people say no to almost everything.