Vladimir Putin

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

With regards to the infrastructure, these 11 stadiums. Of course, we spent a lot of money on this and it is imperative that all of this infrastructure, I completely agree, it must work and above all work toward the development of sport on a large scale.

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.

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

There was no collusion. Everybody knows there was no collusion.

The case for individual freedom rests largely upon the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the ‘working masses’.

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

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 have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy, it’s the country’s legacy.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, with the ending of the Warsaw Pact mutual defence strategy, was the obvious time for Nato to have been disbanded.

I presume that each of us has the capacity to be a saint or a monster. The rest is up to us, although the circumstances of our lives impose complex conditions on such choices.

Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people.

This is a sad negative element of the U.S. political system. One can argue, but one should not show disrespect, not even to him personally, but also to the people who voted for him.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.