Quotes About Putin

It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.

Putin has all the power under his control, all the security forces, all the billions of dollars he needs. It's mad to pretend otherwise.

LGBT people are at the heart of President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on democracy.

Putin interfered in our election because he wanted an American president who sees the world as he does.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.

Those who criticize Putin are not human: they are my personal enemies.

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion.

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.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

Vladimir Putin is not our friend and never has been.

In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.

I've learned over the years to hear what Putin is railing against in his own railing way.

I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.

I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Putin believes Russia is back, and he may be right.

I don't think anyone in the 1990s, the late '90s, anticipated that the Putin they knew then would become the Putin we know now.

If you want to go after Putin, go after his money and if you want to go after his money go after the oligarchs.

I'm a politician who's against corruption that Putin has done in our country.

The Russian government doesn't like me; Vladimir Putin doesn't like me.

Interpol was set up to catch fugitives, not act like the long arm of Putin going after his enemies.

Mr. Putin's primary goal in the 2016 elections was to delegitimize our institutions and pit Americans against each other.