Somebody with his record in a normal country wouldn't even have turned up for re-election.

This is special, very special, for our country.

There are people who assert that the Ministers are at fault. Not so. The country now realizes that the Ministers are but fleeting shadows. The country can clearly see who sends them here. To prevent a catastrophe the Tsar himself must be removed, by force if there is no other way.

Everybody in my country is jumping, I think. And everybody at the Olympics will drink lots of vodka.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]