Vladimir Putin

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

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.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

I think: the powers like to talk about ‘freedom’ in order to wash the population’s brains.

There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

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?

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I will continue – as Labour Leader – to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.

Black lives must not matter until black people start respecting black lives and stop killing ourselves.

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

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The Obama policies [2016] are to try to pressure Mexico to keep Central American immigrants from coming anywhere near us. Who are the Central American immigrants? These are people fleeing from the wreckage left by US government policies.

People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

Whoever is the first to cry ‘Stop the thief’ is the one who is guilty.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

The big transnationals want to reduce freedom by undermining the democratic functioning of the states in which they’re based, while at the same time ensuring the government will be powerful enough to protect and support them.

Take Spain. It was admitted into the European Community with some conditions, one of which was that it is to be what is pretty openly called a ‘barrier’ to these hordes of North Africans who the Europeans are afraid are going to flock up to Europe. It’s a narrow distance.

I don’t respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.