You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

He who shoots first laughs last.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.

I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain...!

There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.