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And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.