Life Can Make You Do Many Things,

Then It Was Like A Genie Out Of The Bottle And It Began To Walk All On Its Own And In Directions I Did Not Want.

You See, With [designing]weapons, It Is Like A Woman Who Bears Children. For Months She Carries Her Baby And Thinks About It. A Designer Does Much The Same Thing With A Prototype. I Felt Like A Mother - Always Proud. It Is A Special Feeling, As If You Were Awarded With A Special Award. I Shot With It A Lot. I Still Do Now. That Is Why I Am Hard Of Hearing.

It Is The Germans Who Are Responsible For The Fact That I Became A Fabricator Of Arms. If Not For Them, I Would Have Constructed Agricultural Machines.

The Ak-47 Is Not A Device Of Aggression ... I Devised This Machine-gun For The Security Of My Country.

I Wanted To Invent An Engine That Could Run For Ever. I Could Have Developed A New Train, Had I Stayed In The Railway. It Would Have Looked Like The Ak-47 Though.