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It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually.

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.

I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.

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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

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