"I have never been a chef; I used to be a restaurateur and quite successful. I can't cook myself. They should have jus…"

"We will kill everyone on the battlefield. Take no more prisoners of war!"

"Russia is on the brink of catastrophe."

"We need to stop deceiving the population and telling them that everything is fine."

"What have we even done? We’ve turned the Russian army – the second army in the world – into what? Who the **** knows.…"

"Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere."

"Carefully, precisely, surgically and the way we do it, the way we can."

"I will answer you very subtly, and delicately and I apologize, I will allow a certain ambiguity. Gentlemen, we interf…"

"Don’t booze too much, don’t take drugs, don’t rape women — only for love or for money as they say."

"My advice to the Russian elites — get your lads, send them to war, and when you go to the funeral, when you start bur…"