Vladimir Putin

“Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.”

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

“Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or...”

“How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?”

“We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, bu...”

“If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of int...”

“My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.”

“Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.”

“You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.”

“Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.”

“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 can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.”

“When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.”

“Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.”

“I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.”

“Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.”

“The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that h...”

“In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly...”

“I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov,...”

“McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.”