Putin Quotes

Putin needs to understand and feel in his gut that if the Chechens get a nuclear bomb, they're going to Moscow first, they're not coming to New York.

I think Vladimir Putin will give up power.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.

He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

I don't know one person who has changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump because Vladimir Putin wanted them to do that.

Today Russia announced that it will join America's fight with the terror group ISIS. Then Putin said, "But I did not say which side.

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.

After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.'

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.

We need to deter Putin from further actions because this is a very real threat.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

I think Russia must have been very embarrassed by Syria's use of chemical weapons because it really undercut Putin's role back in 2013 in saying he had helped get rid of Syria's weapons.

Putin is somebody who really respects strength.

Are you aware that people who oppose Vladimir Putin wind up dead all over the world, poisoned, shot in the back of the head?

Aren't we in the midst of a blitzkrieg, for a lack of a better term, of informational warfare conducted by Russian trolls under the command of Vladimir Putin?

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

I think that Putin views Obama as weak. I think that there is a sense that he could put the troops in Ukraine because he knows Obama will do very little than what he's done at this point.

Russians don't want to fight ISIS in Syria. They want to leave that to us. Aside from that, I don't know what are the objectives that Mr. Trump seeks in having a good relationship with Mr. Putin.

From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played.

[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.

Roger Ailes said, we learned from a secret back channel that the ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia.

Putin is behaving in a very dangerous way. And Donald Trump sounds as though he would simply sit back and allow that to go on. I worry about where that would end up.

I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin hates America, he wants to hurt us. Suddenly Vladimir Putin is a good guy, Russia is okay, no it's not. Russia is evil, Russia is our enemy.

This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.

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.

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

The New York Times carries as much weight as the FBI, and if the New York Times says there's nothing to see between Trump and Russia and Putin, then there's nothing to see.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.