JJ Vladimir Quotes

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues, but I don't think we should go to extremes.

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

Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.

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 have good joint projects in the helicopter and aircraft manufacturing industry. We are considering cooperation and are actively cooperating in space. There are good prospects there [with China].

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

Without women, we stood in space on one leg only.

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

But in my arms she was always Lolita.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

I do not want to answer provocative question.

I am sure that, after all, any man in my place should set a positive example for other people.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership with everyone.

We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

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 should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.