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.
Mikhail KalashnikovThe AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.
Mikhail KalashnikovThen it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.
Mikhail Kalashnikov