Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes & Sayings

“I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.”

“My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.”

“I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.”

“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.”

“Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.”

“I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.”

“I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.”

“This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.”

“I'm not an ordinary prisoner.”

“To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.”