The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

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

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

Most super PACs are a money-laundering operation that exists solely to enrich the members or its founders.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.