Prisons where people can’t even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don’t think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.
VLADIMIR PUTINRussia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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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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The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90’s is final.
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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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The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
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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 no nationality or religion.
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
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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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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
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The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.
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Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
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Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
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Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.
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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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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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I insist that people – wherever they live – have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
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The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.
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Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the major geopolitical disaster of the century.
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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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There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
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Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
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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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I’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
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You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
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Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
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It’s better not to argue with women.
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