Vladimir Putin

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

I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres – economic, political and humanitarian – and has imposed itself on other states.

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

I think it’s fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

Recently one of Germany’s famous and popular publications wrote that President Trump is pushing Europe toward Putin. If we take this together with an earlier joke, that Russia influenced elections in the United States, then this all taken together starts sounding pretty funny. We apparently influenced the election of the U.S. President, and then he gifted us Europe. Total nonsense. There’s no way to describe this other than as a joke.

In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it’s fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you’re going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.

I think we should not control the Internet.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

America’s greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

… This phenomenon has its place in the world, and it’s developing. We need to monitor and analyze what’s going on thoroughly. And at some stage we will need to look at how we can take part in this process, how we can use it to avoid all sorts of restrictions in the sphere of international financial activity, among other things.

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we’ll be scared of them, it means they have won.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

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.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

A business or a big corporation is a fascist structure internally. Power is at the top. Orders go from top to bottom. You either follow the orders or get out.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.