Aleksandr Lebed Quotes

#1. And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.

Aleksandr Lebed

#2. I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

Aleksandr Lebed

#4. I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Aleksandr Lebed

#5. For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Aleksandr Lebed

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

Aleksandr Lebed

#7. The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

Alexander MacLaren

#8. I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#9. 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.

Aleksandr Lebed

#10. Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Wayne Dyer

#11. A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, a splintery groan issued from all directions at once.

Jennifer Egan

#12. Maybe I'm exactly where I should be after all.

Tammara Webber

#13. 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.

Aleksandr Lebed

#14. I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Aleksandr Lebed

#15. I am going to the white kingdom where the colours if all things can be found.

Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio

#16. Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

Hillary Clinton

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

Aleksandr Lebed

#18. 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.

Aleksandr Lebed

#19. In the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.

Paul Auster

#20. In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

Aleksandr Lebed

#21. Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre.

Aishabella Sheikh