You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

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.

In life, we have no control over the storms that we encounter. It’s normal to feel devastated and sad, but to continue being sad is already our choice.

God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

I am not single and I'm not taken. I'm simply on reserve for one who deserves me.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.