I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

Opposition work is not without its dangers. But if you've chosen a job like that for yourself, you then subsequently shouldn't spend your time every second thinking, oh my God, what might happen to me? Oh my God, what might happen to me? Your colleagues include quite a large number of war correspondents. Their job is not the least dangerous in the world, either.