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"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."

"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."

"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989."

"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."

"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin."

"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."

"Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country."
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"During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them."

"The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself."

"If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing."

"The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia."

"Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way."

"Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process."

"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."

"There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding."
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