The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

Dont be concerned that things appear to be falling apart this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.'

It is tempting to think of your husband to be as just another bridal accessory. It may be easier for him to play along with this too. After all you dont expect your shoes or your beaded bag to help you make decisions.

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.

Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia.

I don't know how I feel right now.

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.

Humans are naturally elusioned in discrimination it starts when we look for the first time in mirror.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads.

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.