Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.

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.

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.

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

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.

The truth is there are always three choices: the right one, the wrong one and the one that is called "No Choice". As you may guessed, the "No Choice" one is a rule of a bad interpreter.

The idea that I could lose her again… it’s unbearable.

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

I have nothing against dogs. I just hate rugs that go squish-squish.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.