Vladimir Putin

Politician

1952-10-07

Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as president and prime minister of Russia across multiple terms since 1999. He has dominated Russian political leadership in the 21st century. His tenure has shaped major domestic and international policy decisions.

Quotes by 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.'
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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, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.
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You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
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The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
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Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
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Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
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Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
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The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
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Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
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If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
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The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.
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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.
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
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There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
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Thieves must sit in prison.
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The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.
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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.
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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
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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.
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Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
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