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

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

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

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.

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.

Youve got to take advantage of those guys outside. Its frustrating.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

All you have to do is recognize an opportunity.

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.