If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.