Putin Quotes

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I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

Putin is like Al Capone.

I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.

I don't believe Vladimir Putin is a killer, a threat to France, to others in this region. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion.

Putin looks at her and he laughs. OK? He laughs. Putin. Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles.

I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going to respond by growing stronger economically and strategically.

I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries.

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."

As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where – where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.

The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.

[Vladimir] Putin took a look at them [Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] and said, I can push these guys around the world. These are children compared to me. Donald Trump is not a child.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

It's more of a strength model to say that [Vladimir] Putin will do what it takes to defend his country. But that's why Putin is dangerous and Russia is a major cause of concern for us .

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

The nationalist right have common views. They hate the EU, they hate NATO, they dislike trade, they admire Russia. Many of them are funded by Putin.

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

I have a resolution that I introduced in February. I think there's enough there that we know about the Kremlin and about Putin to be concerned about whether or not there was collusion.

The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country.

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.

[Rex Tillerson] is gonna continue to work on [sanctions lifting]. This is important for him. He was there [in White House] because he negotiated the deal for Exxon with [Vladimir] Putin.

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well.

I really do believe that much of what coming out of Donald Trump's mouth was a play from Vladimir Putin's playbook.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

I never met Putin. This is not my best friend. But if the United States got along with Russia, wouldn't be so bad.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media rumor.

The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

I don't know that I'm gonna get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?