"The Ruhnama is the spiritual guide for the Turkmen people. It is our constitution, our religion, our history."

"I have decided that all the hospitals in the country, except for the capital, should be closed. People should come to Ashgabat if they are sick."

"I have ordered the construction of a new monument to neutrality. Neutrality is our strength."

"I have ordered all doctors to swear an oath to me, not to Hippocrates."

"We need to build a new golden age for Turkmenistan."