Putin has all the power under his control, all the security forces, all the billions of dollars he needs. It's mad to pretend otherwise.

I am one of the most famous people in Russia, which is maybe not modest, but it's true.

I'm like the Russian Tyra Banks.

My dream was to do political journalism.

I am who I am. Why should I hide because someone might say, 'How can she really care when she wears Chanel?' Actually, yes, I can care about justice even in Chanel heels.

I think it is my big advantage that I know Putin personally... that he can trust me, that he can see in me a new generation. I want to be a person who really makes him see how many people are against the system.

I want my government to be transparent.

Russian people are not stupid. They know that the system we are living in is undemocratic.

Any president we choose becomes a czar in Russia. I don't want czars anymore. I don't want to be a czar myself. I want to be a democratic leader.

Even if we imagine I'm a Kremlin project, then I'm a good Kremlin project because I'm saying out things that have not been said before.

I'm a journalist and, before, a next TV star.

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

I've been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me.

I'm the kind of person whom you like or hate, you never stay neutral.

I don't want revolution in my country. The only way to change Russia without blood is evolution.

What I do is good for Russian opposition. What I do is I speak freely on the things and items that were never discussed loudly with Russian public for years.

I don't need anyone's approval for going to elections.

Because I really believe that Russia needs a fresh face, a new generation, to be seen on the political stage.

I think I can really make people go and vote against the system - voting for Ksenia Sobchak.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

My participation in the presidential elections can truly be a step on the path towards the transformation that our country needs so much.

Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make people hate someone. And this hatred is all around the Russian politics.

Well, first of all, I think that Russia has to have free democratic elections, that means everyone who wants to take part in it should be admitted.

I have no political weight, and I haven't earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.

My goal is to bring the issues that were never brought up on federal TV, such as LGBT rights, which are a shock for many people because they really think that those people should go to prison, they shouldn't have any rights. And moreover, there is lots of people who share the idea that they should be punished for being LGBT, just for the fact.

Well, Trump is certainly not my hero. I'm sorry to say that, but that's true.

The mission is to demonstrate that Russia is not Putin, that we're ready for cooperation, and that there are a lot of people in Russia who want the U.S.-Russia relations to be improved and that we don't view the United States as our enemy.

People can't go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren't they going to the next protest? They answer, 'Because we're tired of being thousands. I'm ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don't want to be the 10,000th. Because it's pointless.'

I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she simply doesn't understand many things.

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

Why was I going around in rhinestones before, and am now wearing a plaid shirt and glasses? It's not a question of fashion. It's a question of time and yourself. The country changed, I grew up, life changed. It's normal.

I wanted to become a star, of course. That was very important to me. I wanted to achieve something.

To present me as the main face of the opposition movement is completely incorrect. I'm not a person who is 'against Putin.' I'm just a person who is standing up for a fair society, for free elections.

Yes, I love good clothes, good shoes, but I earned it.

Revolutions in Russia are even worse than bad czars.

Of course I want to be president, I want to win, but I also want to be sincere.

I think in political life you can only know your position and stay in place, even though people always try to push you to one side.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I'm very drawn to the story of Carla Bruni. Why is everyone talking about her? Specifically because everyone sees the first lady, but they know she was somewhere, topless, and had some Hollywood lover. There is some contrast in this person. I have these contrasts.

We must try to influence the government, not fight to take power.

I don't have to justify myself. I work a lot and I earn a lot.

It was a conscious choice, to build my own career, to make a name for myself. Another issue here, of course, is that I used all means to build it and was ready to pay any price for it.

I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I am not afraid of Putin, so I go and challenge him on the elections.

I am always getting messages that I am paid by America, that I work for America, that I am connected with CIA... blah blah blah. I am not working for America, I am working for my country's good, but America is not an enemy for me.

I'm really a self-made businesswoman.

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.