Putin Quotes

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation.

One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership.

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

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.

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?

Putin has outsmarted Hillary Clinton and Obama at every single step of the way. Whether it's Syria, you name it. Missiles.

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

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.

Putin needs to understand and feel in his gut that if the Chechens get a nuclear bomb, they're going to Moscow first, they're not coming to New York.

I think Vladimir Putin will give up power.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.

He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

I don't know one person who has changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump because Vladimir Putin wanted them to do that.

Today Russia announced that it will join America's fight with the terror group ISIS. Then Putin said, "But I did not say which side.

Vladimir Putin celebrated his 63rd birthday today. He had a nice party, but it got awkward when two of his friends got him the same country.

After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.'

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

Donald Trump is taking flak from the media, establishment republicans and all the democrats for merely stating the obvious and the truth: Vladimir Putin is much more of a leader than President Obama.

Vladimir Putin hates America, he wants to hurt us. Suddenly Vladimir Putin is a good guy, Russia is okay, no it's not. Russia is evil, Russia is our enemy.

This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.

Vladimir Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He's been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that.

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

The New York Times carries as much weight as the FBI, and if the New York Times says there's nothing to see between Trump and Russia and Putin, then there's nothing to see.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.

The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.

We knowingly chose to protest in the Christ the Savior Cathedral, the most important church in the country, to denounce the connection between the church and Putin.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.

You cannot compare me to somebody who makes apologies for Hitler. And I don't think Putin is comparable.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.