I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.

With determination, discipline and hard work all dreams become a reality.

The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

Only the mad girls chase me, I think.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.