“My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.”

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Superpower’ is something which we used during the cold war time.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

U.S. society doesn’t want to play the role of international policeman.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That’s how this works. That’s how music is created.

Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?

Beautiful flower, grow untamed.

One of the sweetest ways to love – I’ll let you grow.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Failure isn’t loss, its growth, success and wisdom.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.