Top 100 Quotes About Vladimir Putin
#1. President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That's after they taught Putin how to put a shirt ON.
Jimmy Fallon
#2. Russia has named Vladimir Putin its man of the year for the 15th year in a row. Putin got 143 million votes and the guy he was up against got killed in a mysterious boating accident. The boat was in a warehouse.
Conan O'Brien
#3. The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin's critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.
Luke Harding
#4. If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.
Bill Maher
#5. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
Rand Paul
#6. We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.
Hillary Clinton
#7. Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)
Jimmy Fallon
#8. I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.
Carly Fiorina
#9. There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.
Corey Flintoff
#10. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.
David Zaslav
#11. On September 11, 2001, Russia's then-president, Vladimir Putin, called U.S. President George W. Bush - making Putin the first international leader to speak with Bush after the attacks.
Sergei Lavrov
#12. [Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.
Garry Kasparov
#13. The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.
Garry Kasparov
#14. Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.
Conan O'Brien
#15. Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.
Seth Moulton
#16. It will be very important for us to continue to keep up the necessary pressure, the necessary vigilance, for there to be peace in Ukraine, our trust in the goodwill of President (Vladimir) Putin is limited. It is why we have to maintain our decision about sanctions.
Francois Hollande
#17. Sure, there's Ebola and Vladimir Putin and Islamic State terrorism.
Anonymous
#18. Putin has big plans for Russia ... Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.
Pope Francis
#19. I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?
Donald Trump
#20. We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.
Andrea Tantaros
#21. His [Donald trump] views on Vladimir Putin, I think, are troubling. And I don't think he fundamentally understands exactly who Vladimir Putin is or exactly what he's trying to do. So, these are the kinds of things that I think in detail you need to begin to understand.
Marco Rubio
#22. The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#23. Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.
Al Roker
#24. Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.
Hillary Clinton
#25. There was just a speck in the center of this T-shirt. But the speck grew larger - became a shirtless man walking toward the viewer - and pretty soon you could see the rapidly approaching man's face. Vladimir Putin.
Dan Simmons
#26. 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.
John McCain
#27. At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.
Conan O'Brien
#28. We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'
Rich Lowry
#29. When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.
Bret Stephens
#30. When [Vladimir] Putin goes out and tells everybody - and you talk about a relationship, but he says Donald Trump is going to win and Donald Trump is a genius, and then I have people saying you should disavow. I said, I'm going to disavow that?
Donald Trump
#31. Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.
Oliver North
#32. The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.
Ivan Krastev
#33. 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.
Craig Ferguson
#34. I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#35. I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.
Jay Leno
#36. It's just, well, I can't stand it when someone's unfair to Mr. Wolflaw, because he's really so ... he's so incredible." "I understand. It really steams me when people say bad things about Vladimir Putin.
Dean Koontz
#37. I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.
Carly Fiorina
#38. Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.
Jeb Bush
#39. Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
Garry Kasparov
#40. Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.
Garry Kasparov
#41. President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'
Conan O'Brien
#42. The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.
David Letterman
#43. 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.
Jimmy Fallon
#44. [Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor.
Garry Kasparov
#45. I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin.
Sean Hannity
#46. Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.
Garry Kasparov
#47. Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
Carly Fiorina
#48. I didn't say I would cut off all communication with [Vladimir] Putin. What I said was as president of the United States, now is not the time to talk with him.
Carly Fiorina
#49. Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.
David Letterman
#50. It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.
Garry Kasparov
#51. I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.
Carly Fiorina
#52. Vladimir Putin uses fascist propaganda to do so. From Ukraine to Syria, he is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.
Garry Kasparov
#53. 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.
David Letterman
#54. Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal.
Rick Perry
#55. I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.
Charlie Rose
#56. Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
Evan Osnos
#57. Vladimir Putin had once been known as Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Dracula. And that he had also, in fact, been Grigori Rasputin before the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Jeff Kirvin
#58. Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'
Conan O'Brien
#59. Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.
David Letterman
#60. When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.
John Barrasso
#61. But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.
George W. Bush
#62. Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.
David Letterman
#63. In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell
Strobe Talbott
#64. Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity.
Vladimir Putin
#65. 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.
Vladimir Putin
#66. 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
#67. 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.
Vladimir Putin
#68. We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.
Vladimir Putin
#69. 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
#70. McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.
Vladimir Putin
#71. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime.
Vladimir Putin
#72. I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
Vladimir Putin
#73. All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
Vladimir Putin
#74. The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
Vladimir Putin
#75. Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
Vladimir Putin
#76. 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.
Vladimir Putin
#77. 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.
Vladimir Putin
#78. We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.
Vladimir Putin
#79. If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.
Vladimir Putin
#80. Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
Vladimir Putin
#81. I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
Vladimir Putin
#82. There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.
Vladimir Putin
#83. One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
Vladimir Putin
#84. Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.
Vladimir Putin
#85. I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.
Vladimir Putin
#87. No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.
Vladimir Putin
#88. He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.
Vladimir Putin
#89. 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.
Vladimir Putin
#90. I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
Vladimir Putin
#91. People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.
Vladimir Putin
#92. 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
#93. I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.
Vladimir Putin
#94. You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually.
Vladimir Putin
#95. 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
#96. I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.
Vladimir Putin
#97. We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.
Vladimir Putin
#98. The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Vladimir Putin
#99. Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.
Vladimir Putin
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