The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.
VLADIMIR PUTINWe’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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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.
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Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
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Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
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U.S. society doesn’t want to play the role of international policeman.
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We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
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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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Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
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The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
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Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
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I insist that people – wherever they live – have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
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I am not prejudiced in any way.
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Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.
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Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
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My English is very bad.
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