"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything super…"

"I have some rules of my own. One of them is never to regret anything. Over time, I came to the conclusion that this was the right thing to do. As soon as you start regretting and looking back, you sta…"

"If you want so much to become a radical Islamist and are even ready to be circumcised, please come to Moscow. We are a multi-confessional nation. We have specialists dealing with this problem, too. Le…"

"A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization."

"I'm a democrat, but I'm also a realist."