You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.

The I is the soul, which endures.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.