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“I'm the kind of person whom you like or hate, you never stay neutral.”
“I think I can really make people go and vote against the system - voting for Ksenia Sobchak.”
“Any president we choose becomes a czar in Russia. I don't want czars anymore. I don't want to be a czar myself. I want to be a democratic leader.”
“I don't want revolution in my country. The only way to change Russia without blood is evolution.”
“The people are really afraid of what's going on in Russia; they are suffering with fear, sitting at home, doors locked, because they are afraid of their government.”
“Let's not make out as though I will be the winner. I won't be. Putin will run and he will win.”
“It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.”
“All Russian people know who I am. So I use this to the good because, you know, it's really hard to shut my mouth off because... I'm too bright, and I'm too many years visible to everyone.”
“The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.”
“I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.”
“Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.”
“I'm not for seizing power, I'm for justice in the country and for democratic elections.”
“I think it is my big advantage that I know Putin personally... that he can trust me, that he can see in me a new generation. I want to be a person who really makes him see how many people are against the system.”
“I want my government to be transparent.”
“I feel like I'm in a horror film. Everywhere I turn, there's a journalist.”
“I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.”
“It was a conscious choice, to build my own career, to make a name for myself. Another issue here, of course, is that I used all means to build it and was ready to pay any price for it.”
“My burden is my past as a TV star. But, you know, pasts cannot be a life sentence.”
“According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine's. Period.”
“I am not afraid of Putin, so I go and challenge him on the elections.”