“I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past.”

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Being gay is not a crime.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society.

Haha come fight us now Napoleon.

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.

I believe that the presidential term should be limited.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.

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.

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.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

The hardest part is when the leaves abandon the trees. I seem to always lose a part of me.

When you’re telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

Chasing unavailable people is self abandonment.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?