You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

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.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

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