Pastoral Resources

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

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.

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

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

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 think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.