Vladimir Putin

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.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

The more I know about people, the more I like dogs. I simply like animals.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

No one’s asked me. If somebody felt there was a job I could actually do I would consider it — not out of any ambition to be in Washington, but I do want to rise to the occasion of serving there if warranted.

But facts and logic matter little. The Democrats are bent on revenge for their 2016 failure, having run such a rotten campaign that what looked like a ‘sure thing’ collapsed. Evidently, Trump’s severe assault against the common good is a lesser matter, at least to the party elite.

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

The NRA have great power over you people. They have less power over me. I don’t need it. What do I need? But I’ll tell you, they are well-meaning

Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

If you think about the way the society works in general, it works pretty much the way the founding fathers said. The society should be governed by those who own it, and they intend to follow Adam Smith’s vile maxim. That’s at the core of things.

The general threat has always been independence. The US and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

I’ve never had the passion for politics.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.