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

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

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.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

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

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