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.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

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.