The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
Mikhail KalashnikovThe AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.
Mikhail KalashnikovI 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.
Mikhail Kalashnikov