"An AIDS patient asks his doctor whether the sand treatment prescribed him will do any good. 'No', the doctor replies, 'but you will get accustomed to living under the earth'."

"I have always been a successful man. In business, in politics, in everything."

"I am a modern man. I believe in progress and innovation."

"In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide."

"If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest."