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In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Even if Pfizer committed itself legally to maintaining some of its research and development in the U.K., its takeover of AstraZeneca would involve dismembering an excellent and strategically important British company.