One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.

Budget for 2015 provides for 11.7% expenditures growth

At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her.- Ryan

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Heaven will smile on us again.

Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."