Vladimir Putin Quotes

I would like to deal with a person who is able to take responsible decisions and implement the agreements reached. The name [Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton] does not matter.

I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.

The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we make use of this platform.

The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has not happened, and the year is over. That's not Russia's fault.

We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

We didn't have any relationship at all with Trump.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

Life would be boring without gossip.

Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity.

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

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.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

My English is very bad.

You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

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.

We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.

The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks].

The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.

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.

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.