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I never chose to be in Russia, and I would prefer to be in my own country, but if I can't make it home, I will continue to work very much in the same way that I have... What happens to me is not as important; I simply serve as the mechanism of disclosure.

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

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.

I've never dealt with the Russian government, I've never had a relationship with the Russian government.

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.

In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.