“I am not prejudiced in any way.”

I’m convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

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.

I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist’s job is very interesting.

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.

It’s better not to argue with women.

Life is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Prejudice and bigotry are brought down…by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.

What I’m not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.