 Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted. |
| Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology. |
| 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. |
| It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus. |
| 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. |
| You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. |
| 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. |
| There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. |
| Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution. |
| For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing. |
| The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia. |
| I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures. |
| During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them. |
| 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. |
| You're not always able to choose. |
| There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state. |
