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" As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger. "
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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" To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me. "
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" I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home. "
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" What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway. "
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" My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory. "
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" 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. "
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" I established my bank in 1988. "
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" I'm not an ordinary prisoner. "
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" 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. "
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" My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. "
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" I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. "
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" A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable. "
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" I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. "
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" Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. "
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