Vladimir Putin

What is going on right now, it is unacceptable, it is wrong. However, it must be admitted that it is the result of inaccurate regulation, that was brought in recently in the sphere of energy, in energy resources.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don’t want to learn it themselves.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.

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

Everywhere the Europeans went, whether it was the Portuguese or the Spanish or the English or the Dutch, they fought with a level of violence which appalled the natives. They had never seen anything like it. That was true virtually over the entire world, with very few exceptions.

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

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.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

I’ve never tried to impose pressure on the authority of the government through my business achievements. I cannot tell you what the others were doing.

Hizbullah is not a militia.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

A reporter’s ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Debate cannot be stilled, and indeed, in a properly functioning system of propaganda, it should not be, because it has a system-reinforcing character if constrained within proper bounds. What is essential is to set the bounds firmly.

Large corporate advertisers on TV will rarely sponsor programs that engage in serious criticisms of corporate activities, such as the problem of environmental degradation, the workings of the military-industrial complex, or corporate support of and benefits from 3rd World tyrannies.