I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax..

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I c….

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya..

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it..

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya..

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes i….

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have….

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed..

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Indep….

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia..

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I wou….

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information ….

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying..

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it..

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose ext….

I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be pres….

I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a br….

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible..

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defe….