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.
VLADIMIR PUTINIf the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.
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What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
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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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China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.
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Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
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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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It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.
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Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.
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It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one’s own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.
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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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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.
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No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
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My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.
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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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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
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