I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.

It's better not to argue with women.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

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

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none