Life Quotes

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

Vladimir Putin

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

Vladimir Putin

In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.

Vladimir Putin

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

Vladimir Putin

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

Vladimir Putin

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

Vladimir Putin

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Vladimir Putin

The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.

Vladimir Putin

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

Vladimir Putin

I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody else. We have always behaved, and we will continue to behave, in a responsible way. We intend to participate in the elaboration of common rules in the e...

Vladimir Putin

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.

Vladimir Putin

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 against us.'

Vladimir Putin

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.

Vladimir Putin

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

Vladimir Putin

At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate.

Vladimir Putin

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Vladimir Putin

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.

Vladimir Putin

Thieves must sit in prison.

Vladimir Putin

I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.

Vladimir Putin

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

Vladimir Putin

Radicals can be found in any environment.

Vladimir Putin