IN THEIR OWN WORDS

"You see all these people who are well dressed and earn a good salary, going out onto the streets on Saturday and saying, 'No more.' That's when you know you need a change."

- Yana Larionova, 26, a real estate agent

"She set the tone for some actors in our country and gave them a signal."

- Vladmir Putin, referring to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Today we just proved that civil liberty does exist, that the middle class does exist and that this country is not lost. This is only the beginning of a long and difficult struggle. This is our land, and we must get it back."

- Yevgeniya Albats, editor of the New Times magazine

"Everyone has the single most powerful weapon that we need -- dignity, the feeling of self-respect. It's impossible to beat and arrest hundreds of thousands, millions. ... "We are not cattle or slaves. We have voices and votes and we have the power to uphold them."

Putin "has stopped being the national leader -- in the eyes of his team, the ruling political class and society."

- Analyst Alexei Malachenko of the Moscow Carnegie Center

"United Russia made a miracle, prompting all of us to unite against it."

- Nationalist leader Konstantin Krylov

"We will fight to the end, to the cancellation of this shameful, false election. We are launching a campaign to drive Putin from power."

"The army is with us, 80 percent of officers hate the defense minister."

- Retired Maj.-Gen. Yevgeny Kopyshev

"We are now changing the nation's history to the better. We will force the government to realize that they will have to pay a price for rigging the vote, and the price is their legitimacy."