I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
My government is in no sense anti-Russian.
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.
Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.