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Vladimir Putin Quotes
“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.”
“Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.”
“Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.”
“To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.”
“Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.”
“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.”
“Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with”
“Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.”
“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.”
“Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.”
“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.”
“We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must”
“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 that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the”
“Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.”
“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”
“Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.”
“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, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.”
“No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.”
“President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.”
“Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.”
“I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.”
“Radicals can be found in any environment.”
“The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.”
“Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'”
“We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.”
“We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.”
“The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.”
“No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.”
