“We must not forget that God created us equal.”

f you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God’s sake.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

I spend a little time every day to play sports.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history.

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

My English is very bad.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.