Vladimir Putin

One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

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.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.

If you’ve taken an economics course, you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. You take a look at the first ad you see on television and ask yourself … is that its purpose? No it’s not.

The revolution does not need historians.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

It’s alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Now if you can’t pay back a loan to me, I don’t say that your neighbors have to pay it back. But that’s what the IMF says. The IMF says the people of the country have to pay back the debt which they had nothing to do with, it was usually given to dictators, or rich elites…

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

[on Osama bin Laden’s death] no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process.