We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don't need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food.

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everythings OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

We must learn to succeed in conditions of low fuel and energy prices

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

[Global-warming debate] some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects.

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

For the devil has no power . . . except in the dark." - Madame Dorothea

Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.

And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.