Anatoly Chubais

“They were stealing, stealing, and stealing. They are different people, but they all steal.”

“I don't care what color the cat is, as long as it catches mice.”

“I am not a popular person in Russia. I know this. But I believe I did what was necessary for my country.”

“We knew that every sold factory is a nail in the coffin of communism.”

“I have reread Dostoevsky in the last three months. And I feel nothing but almost physical hatred for the man.”

“Yes, we made mistakes. But what we did was create the basis for a market economy.”

“We didn't have a choice between an 'ideal' and a 'bad' way of privatization. We had a choice between criminal communism and criminal capitalism.”

“Privatization in Russia was not a matter of ideology. It was a matter of life and death. We had no state. We had no law. We had no order.”

“The goal of privatization was to build capitalism in Russia. We achieved that goal.”

“The only thing we didn't foresee was that the directors would be so thievish.”