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

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.

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.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

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

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.