We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.