Quotes About Putin

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

Indeed, for Russia, inconsistency is an integral part of its foreign policy strategy, particularly under Putin.

Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.

Russian President and "ex" KGB agent Vladimir Putin calls the fall of the USSR "history's greatest tragedy," and he pours special blame-hatred for that calamity at George Soros.

has also called on Israel to withdraw "from all the occupied Arab lands back to the June 4, 1967 border." Putin has also stressed the necessity of a complete Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights. Growing anti-Semitism

Every time I talk to somebody about Putin, it's like, 'But isn't he vastly popular?' Is that really the most important question? I mean, we can unpack his popularity. I think it's manufactured. I think it's manufactured through totalitarian mechanisms.

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.

It is not hard to see why Trump might choose Putin as his fantasy friend. Putin is the real-world version of the person Trump pretends to be on television.

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.

Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin.

Relax. There is zero chance of Putin blackmailing Trump. Blackmail depends on the possibility of embarrassment. Allan Whittow Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire

Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria.

The mission is to demonstrate that Russia is not Putin, that we're ready for cooperation, and that there are a lot of people in Russia who want the U.S.-Russia relations to be improved and that we don't view the United States as our enemy.

In mid-2014, 51 percent of American Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of Republicans said Trump had the 'right approach' toward Russia.

In Russia, Vladimir Putin is viewed as a progressive Democrat.

The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

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.

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

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.

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

Russia is so feudal in its system of patronage and reward that it is virtually impossible for a leader to hand over power without controlling his successor or at least receiving an exemption from prosecution - something Mr. Putin granted his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in 1999.