I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Not all of me shall die.

We will die, but art will remain.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.