I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
Mikhail KalashnikovI am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
Mikhail KalashnikovIt 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.
Mikhail Kalashnikov