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"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."
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"Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another's mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it."

"If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud."

"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."

"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
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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."

"These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable."

"I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council."

"I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls."

"The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear."

"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."

"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 are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism."
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