I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

We all must suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

The government can't change the weather.

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.

I had my family before I played football.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.