Vladimir Putin

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

I think we should not control the Internet.

Donald Trump and I have, firstly, met more than once at various international venues and secondly, we regularly talk over the phone.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

The New York Times, reported in 2009, that the Obama administration had made a secret deal with the pharmaceutical industry in which it promised not to allow the government to use its purchasing power to negotiate drug prices, as is done in every other country…

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

The message will be very, very clear that we are campaigning to defend and extend workers rights and trade union rights in Britain.

I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.

So the indigenous population of what’s now the United States was ‘exterminated’, to use the word that the founding fathers used. Not totally, but that was what was considered the right thing to do. They replaced them and it became a kind of settler state, not an imperial state.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of ‘brainwashing under freedom’ to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.