I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.

It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.