“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's th...” — Aleksandr Lebed Quote

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We weren't destitute to the point that we worried about our next meal, but our next meal after that was in question. So we really were the poor class that lived paycheck to paycheck, and it's a horrible way to live.”

“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.”