My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.
VLADIMIR PUTINWhat is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
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I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
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Life is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
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I spend a little time every day to play sports.
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There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
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Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
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Being gay is not a crime.
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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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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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We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
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Superpower’ is something which we used during the cold war time.
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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.
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Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.
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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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The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
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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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Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
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Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
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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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There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.
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A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past.
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The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.
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Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy.
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Iraq is a small but very proud nation.
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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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