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

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

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.

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.