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

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

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Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.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

No one can take the shot for you.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.