As I told you from the beginning that main efforts must be concentrated within the government,

Effective work can only be developed at the federal level through joint activity between the government and the administration,

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

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 superior.