It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
VLADIMIR PUTINWe’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
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Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
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Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
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Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy.
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I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.
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No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
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Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
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The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.
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Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history.
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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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Superpower’ is something which we used during the cold war time.
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My English is very bad.
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Being gay is not a crime.
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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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There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.
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