I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

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

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

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

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.

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.