"It is up to the state to do it, but there has been nothing but talk and wishful thinking. It's like the tale of the e…"

"To win, you've got to plan carefully and then make war with the speed of lightning."

"Human beings are not trash. Human blood is not water to be spilled."

"I never defended the White House. I defended common sense. They tried to push me, a Russian general, to shoot my own …"

"No commander can know everything. He must rely on deputies, competent in the narrow areas assigned them. His responsi…"

"In a normal civilized society, you would have to force the army into politics with a stick. They should not be concer…"

"I joined the armed forces 25 years ago and still love military service and want to carry on. But these are troubled t…"

"Only in the constitutional way. I've had more than my share of war and have come to the conclusion that it doesn't re…"

"They charged like a bull at the Chechen fence and got their horns stuck. Now they are going crazy out of their own in…"

"We have received reliable information from the ground in Chechnya that people there are planning the physical annihil…"