Top 100 Vladimir Putin Quotes
#1. Today's meeting was extremely important and brought exceptional results, ... The talks have shown that the long-term national and geopolitical interests of Russia and India coincide.
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#2. 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.
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#3. Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there to bring the people together - and not to divide them.
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#4. The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
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#5. I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don't agree with our actions, for example in Ukraine, Crimea, or any other external issue, no one from official government organs do this.
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#6. 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.
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#7. I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
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#8. One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
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#10. Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.
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#11. 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.
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#12. I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
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#15. I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.
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#16. Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.
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#17. The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
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#18. It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.
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#19. If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.
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#20. We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.
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#23. The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.
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#24. In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.
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#25. I am convinced that international terrorism gave itself the goal of not allowing the re-election of Bush. The statement by bin Laden in the final stages of the pre-election campaign is the best confirmation of this.
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#26. Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
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#27. In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
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#28. The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
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#29. I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
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#30. Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.
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#31. I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.
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#32. The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.
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#33. My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him.
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#34. We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
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#35. The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
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#36. But if the U.S. were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united and sovereign country, that would definitely be a second mistake.
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#37. In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.
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#38. There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
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#39. Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.
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#40. 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.
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#41. You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.
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#42. NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.
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#43. To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
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#44. Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean ... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.
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#45. We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.
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#46. The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.
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#47. The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.
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#48. 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.
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#49. The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
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#50. Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.
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#51. We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost attention to our common moral values and consolidate Russian society on this basis. I think that this is an absolute priority.
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#52. President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.
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#53. The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
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#54. It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
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#55. Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.
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#56. Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
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#61. The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible,.
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#62. I consider the decision of my colleagues and friends to be the best birthday present.
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#63. Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.
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#64. If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow ... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.
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#65. At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.
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#66. Berlusconi faces trial for bedding women. If he was gay, no one would ever lay a finger on him.
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#67. Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.
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#68. The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
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#69. If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by the terrorists.
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#71. I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.
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#72. I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.
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#73. I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.
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#74. The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
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#75. Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.
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#78. In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could 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 are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.
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#81. 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.
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#82. Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.
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#83. We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.
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#84. America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.
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#85. 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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#86. Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us,
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#87. In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.
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#88. We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.
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#89. 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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#90. Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.
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#91. For me the game of love is much like hunting a man on foot with a knife. It's not over until the blade is clean.
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#93. I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.
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#94. I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.
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#95. If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.
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#96. The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.
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#97. In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.
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#100. A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
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