Alexander Lebed Quotations

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

He who shoots first laughs last.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

I know for sure that Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is a very sick person. He must resign because of his poor health.