Vladimir Putin Quotes And Sayings

Nato Was Built To Counteract The Soviet Union In Its Day And Time. At This Point There Is No Threat Coming From The Soviet Union, Because There Is No Soviet Union Anymore. And Where There Was The Soviet Union Once, There Is Now A Number Of Countries, Among Them The New And Democratic Russia.

Yes, Life In Chechnya So Far Looks More Like A Life After A Natural Disaster.

We Don't Need A Weakened Government But A Strong Government That Would Take Responsibility For The Rights Of The Individual And Care For The Society As A Whole.

Indeed, Russia And The U.s. Were Allies During The Two Tragic Conflicts Of The Second And The First World Wars, Which Allows Us To Think There's Something Objectively Bringing Us Together In Difficult Times, And I Think - I Believe - It Has To Do With Geopolitical Interests And Also Has A Moral Component.

Stalinism Is Linked With A Cult Of Personality And Massive Violations Of The Law, With Repression And Camps. There Is Nothing Like That In Russia And, I Hope, Will Never Again Be.

I'm Eternally Grateful To Fate And The Citizens Of Russia That They've Trusted Me To Be The Head Of The Russian Government.

No One Doubts That Poison Gas Was Used In Syria. But There Is Every Reason To Believe It Was Used, Not By The Syrian Army, But By Opposition Forces To Provoke Intervention By Their Powerful Foreign Patrons, Who Would Be Siding With The Fundamentalists.

I Am The Wealthiest Man, Not Just In Europe, But In The Whole World. I Collect Emotions. I Am Wealthy In That The People Of Russia Have Twice Entrusted Me With The Leadership Of A Great Nation Such As Russia - I Believe That Is My Greatest Wealth.

The Centuries-old History And Culture Of India, Majestic Architectural Monuments And Museums Of Delhi, Agra And Mumbai Have A Unique Attractive Force.

The United Nations' Founders Understood That Decisions Affecting War And Peace Should Happen Only By Consensus, And With America's Consent, The Veto By Security Council Permanent Members Was Enshrined In The United Nations Charter. The Profound Wisdom Of This Has Underpinned The Stability Of International Relations For Decades.

Chechnya Is Part And Parcel Of The Russian Federation.

In 1995, Russia Virtually Gave Chechnya De Facto Statehood And Independence Even Though, De Jure, It Didn't Recognize Chechnya As An Independent State. And I Would Like To Emphasize Strongly That Russia Withdrew All Of Its Troops, We Moved The Prosecutors, We Moved All The Police, Dismantled All The Courts, Completely, 100 Percent.

I Would Prefer To Abandon The Terminology Of The Past. 'Superpower' Is Something Which We Used During The Cold War Time. Why Use It Now?

Russia Is Opposed To The Proliferation Of Mass Destruction Weapons, Including Nuclear Weapons, And In This Context We Call Upon Our Iranian Friends To Abandon The Uranium Enrichment Programme.

It's A Historical Phenomenon That In 250 Years, A Nation Could Move From A Colony Into The Most Prosperous Nation Of The World And The Leader Of The World. It Is Indeed An Achievement, A Tribute To The Talent Of The American Nation, The American People And An Optimal Political And Economic System.

Journalism, As Concerns Collecting Information, Differs Little If At All From Intelligence Work. In My Judgment, A Journalist's Job Is Very Interesting.

If You Want My Personal Attitude, I Would Tell You That I Don't Care About A Person's Sexual Orientation.

Thieves Must Sit In Prison.

Whoever Does Not Miss The Soviet Union Has No Heart. Whoever Wants It Back Has No Brain.

At Least In Russia, You Cannot Just Go And Tap Into Someone's Phone Conversation Without A Warrant Issued By Court. That's More Or Less The Way A Civilized Society Should Go About Fighting Terrorism.

We Are All Different, But When We Ask For The Lord's Blessings, We Must Not Forget That God Created Us Equal.

Cromwell Is Just As Much Of A Bloody Dictator As Was Stalin.

In The Modern World, Those Who Are Weak Will Get Unambiguous Advice From Foreign Visitors Which Way To Go And What Policy Course To Pursue.

It Is Extremely Dangerous To Encourage People To See Themselves As Exceptional, Whatever The Motivation.

Nobody Should Have Any Illusion About The Possibility Of Gaining Military Superiority Over Russia. We Will Never Allow This To Happen.

Our Military Might Is The Guarantor Of Russia's Security And Independence.

At Last, Russia Has Returned To The World Arena As A Strong State - A Country That Others Heed And That Can Stand Up For Itself.

A Considerable Share Of The World's Population Still Cannot Afford Comfortable Housing, Education And Quality Health Care.

The Unjustified Swelling Of The Budgetary Deficit And The Accumulation Of Public Debts Are Just As Destructive As Adventurous Stock-jobbing.

Terrorism Has Once Again Shown It Is Prepared Deliberately To Stop At Nothing In Creating Human Victims. An End Must Be Put To This. As Never Before, It Is Vital To Unite Forces Of The Entire World Community Against Terror.

Above All, Such Sports As Judo, In My View, Teach People To Relate To Each Other. They Teach Us To Respect A Partner, Teach Us To Understand That An Externally Weak Partner Can Not Only Put Up Worthy Resistance, But, If You Relax And Take Too Much For Granted, May Even Win.

I Think The International Community Should Unite To Fight Such Inhuman Phenomena As Terror Attacks And The Murder Of Totally Innocent People.

There Are Big Countries And Small Countries, Rich And Poor, Those With Long Democratic Traditions And Those Still Finding Their Way To Democracy.

No One Should Be Allowed To Violently Trample On The Law.

China Has Created Very Good Investment Tools, Including An Entire Network Of Very Large Funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund Works With Some Of Those Funds, With China's Largest Investment Funds.

To Pay More Is The Easy Way. In Fact, The Solution Possibilities To The Problem Are Many.

I'm Sure Corruption In Chechnya Is Minimal.

We Shall Fight Against Them, Throw Them In Prisons And Destroy Them.

I Spend A Little Time Every Day To Play Sports.

The Task Of The Government Is Not Only To Pour Honey Into A Cup, But Sometimes To Give Bitter Medicine.

Terrorism Has No Nationality Or Religion.

A Figure Who Receives Money From Abroad For His Political Work, And Thus Serves Some Foreign Interest, Cannot Be A Politician In Russia.

Russian Democracy Is The Power Of The Russian People With Their Own Traditions Of National Self-government, And Not The Realisation Of Standards Foisted On Us From Outside.

I Am Convinced That The Norm In Russia Should Become A Family With Three Children.

Russia Needs A Strong State Power And Must Have It. But I Am Not Calling For Totalitarianism.

Anyone Who Doesn't Regret The Passing Of The Soviet Union Has No Heart. Anyone Who Wants It Restored Has No Brains.

Russia Will Not Soon Become, If It Ever Becomes, A Second Copy Of The United States Or England - Where Liberal Value Have Deep Historic Roots.

No References To The Need To Fight Terror Can Be An Argument For Restricting Human Rights.

Nobody Should Pin Their Hopes On A Miracle.

Stalin Is The Most Popular Figure In All Of Russia.