“I’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.”

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.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

I insist that people – wherever they live – have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

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

Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

Strength & Courage. Peace & Truth. Fertility & Growth. Life in Movement. My country stands for these values.

Every time you play for your country, there is responsibility. But when you are captaining, you can say so; you have to lead from the front and make sure the team follows the direction you want them to.

Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.