Russian Quotes

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

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

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

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.

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.

Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?