Russian Quotes

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

I established my bank in 1988.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

Style? I have no style.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.