We don’t need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
VLADIMIR PUTINWe’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.
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A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
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Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.
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Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
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Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
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My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.
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Iraq is a small but very proud nation.
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What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
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No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
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I’m convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past.
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Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.
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The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.
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