Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

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.

Life is sad. Here is someone.

Love is, not putting you through hell. That is no basis for a loving relationship

I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

I've face more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.

Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.