I'm personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, ... But it's what the people want.

Turkmenistan values its status of permanent neutrality, ... not to place on its territory the military bases of foreign states.

Unfortunately, one can see on television old voiceless singers lip-synching their old songs, ... Don't kill talents by using lip synching... Create our new culture.

Let the life of every Turkmen be as beautiful as our melons,

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

I'm an envoy from heaven on high!Just laws, sacred spells do I bringGiving wings to the fold who would flyand swimsuits to those who would swim.

All this will pass in a few years, when the people no longer depend on me. The Turkmens have always bowed to something; once it was fire, then Islam, then Marx... the people have to believe in something.

The most pleasant and pure feeling is to live with a sense of being part of the Motherland, because exactly this feeling spares [us] from loneliness.