I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.