Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

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.

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

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

Ultimately, it's how you approach things in life that puts a smile on your face.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.