Vladimir Putin famous quotes

President Obama and his fellow Democrats are either idiots or deliberately trying to destroy their own economy.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Trying #President #Idiot

I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Believe #Mean #Russia

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Weapons #Politeness

The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Iraq #Issues #Balance

Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history,
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Students #Socialism

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Democracy #Different

Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Sex #Children #Degradation

People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country can only be restored through dialogue and democratic procedures, rather than with the use of armed force, tanks and aircraft.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Order #Talking

I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council can sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state is inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Independent #Gay #Law

If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!
-- Vladimir Putin

#Moving #Russia #Sea

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Jobs #Interesting #Littles

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Democracy #Development #Internals

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Men #Chess #Wiser

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Democracy #Legal System

They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Powerful #Independent #Ukraine

In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Issues #Compromise

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Law #Special #Provocative

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.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Thinking #Punishment #People

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Military #Russia #Illusion

I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Children #Believe

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Miracle #Pins #Should

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Democracy #Revolution

Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Life #Ukraine #Track

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Life #Yesterday #Goes On

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either. We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to our problems.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Humble #Gay #Russia

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force
-- Vladimir Putin

#America #Democracy #World

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Russia #Would Be

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Motivation #People #Dangerous

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.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #Thinking #Russia

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Heart #Missing #Brain

I often heard the same question: What place does Russia reserve for itself in the world; how does it see itself; what is its place? We are a peace-loving state and we want to cooperate with all of our neighbors and with all of our partners.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Russia #World #Want

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Blessing #Different #Forget

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.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Country #People #Enemy

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Regret #Heart #Brain

Crimea has always been and remains Russian, as well as Ukrainian, Crimean-Tatar, Greek (after all, there are Greeks living there) and German - and it will be home to all of those peoples. As for state affiliation, the people living in Crimea made their choice; it should be treated with respect, and Russia cannot do otherwise. I hope that our neighbouring and distant partners will ultimately treat this the same way, since in this case, the highest criteria used to establish the truth can only be the opinion of the people themselves.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Home #Russia #People

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Second Chance #Roots #Russia

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Levels #Achieve #Harder

It's better not to argue with women,
-- Vladimir Putin

#Arguing

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Fighting #Rights #People

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.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Creating #Community #World

There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Ukraine #People #Special

Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, ***** on the board and then struts around like it won the game.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Games #Chess #Pigeons

I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Commitment #Oil #Citizens

I think happiness is love.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Thinking

Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Russia #Ukraine #Views

There are enough forces in the world that are afraid of our strength, "our hugeness," as one of our sovereigns said. So, they seek to divide us into parts, this is a well-known fact. Look at what they did with Yugoslavia: they cut it into small pieces and are now manipulating everything that can be manipulated there, which is almost anything. Apparently, someone would like to do the same with us.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Cutting #Yugoslavia #Pieces

Our task was not to conduct a full-fledged military operation there [in Crimea], but it was to ensure people's safety and security and a comfortable environment to express their will. We did that. But it would not have been possible without the Crimeans' own strong resolution.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Strong #Military #Safety

The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This is what made Crimean residents, the people who live there, think about their future and ask Russia for help. This is what guided our decision to let Crimea become a part of Russian Federation.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Thinking #Russia #People

We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Running #Country #Believe

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Leadership #Army #Soldier

Everyone must hoe his plot daily...
-- Vladimir Putin

#Hoe #Plot

All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.
-- Vladimir Putin

#Thinking #Rights #People