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

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

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.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

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

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.