Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.