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175 Interesting Quotes By Vladimir Putin That Will Blow Your Mind
Vladimir Putin is an eminent Russian politician, and the current President of Russian Federation since 2012. He held the position of the President during 2000-2008. He also served as the Prime Minister for two terms (1999 to 2000 and 2008 to 2012). He was the chairperson of the ruling United Russian party during his second term as Prime Minister. Putin has received extensive international attention as one of the world’s most powerful leaders, and has also enjoyed high domestic approval ratings during his career. We have rounded some powerful, badass, popular, and famous quotes and sayings by the renowned Russian leader who takes a stand on critical issues with incredible poise. Go through the notable and well-known quotes and thoughts by Vladimir Putin on life, corruption, legitimate, miracle, business, money, leader, achievement, integrity, law, talent, culture, differences, friends and more.
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Vladimir Putin
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
Vladimir Putin
Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Vladimir Putin
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
Vladimir Putin
The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.
Vladimir Putin
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.
The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
Vladimir Putin
Radicals can be found in any environment.
Vladimir Putin
If 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.
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.
Vladimir Putin
I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody else. We have always behaved, and we will continue to behave, in a responsible way. We intend to participate in the elaboration of common rules in the energy sector and to abide by rules which are developed together.
The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.
Vladimir Putin
The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.
Vladimir Putin
Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
Vladimir Putin
Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.
Vladimir Putin
Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.
If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.
Vladimir Putin
It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.
Vladimir Putin
McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.
Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
Vladimir Putin
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.
Vladimir Putin
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
Vladimir Putin
How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.
Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.
Vladimir Putin
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
Vladimir Putin
I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.
At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate.
Vladimir Putin
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
Vladimir Putin
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.
Vladimir Putin
I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
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.
Vladimir Putin
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
Vladimir Putin
Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
Vladimir Putin
What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
Vladimir Putin
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Putin
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime.
Vladimir Putin
You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.
Vladimir Putin
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
Vladimir Putin
At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.
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.
Vladimir Putin
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
Vladimir Putin
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.
