I’m convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
VLADIMIR PUTINThe 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.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
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No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
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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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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.
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You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.
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Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.
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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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Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
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I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
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I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.
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Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
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Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
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