Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

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.

Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? 'Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.