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

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.