If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.