Putin Quotes
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.
Hillary Clinton
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
Nancy Pelosi -
Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.
Adam Kinzinger -
I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.
Barack Obama -
It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.
E. J. Dionne -
Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.
Jennifer Donnelly
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The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.
E. J. Dionne -
One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.
Barack Obama -
After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'
Conan O'Brien -
As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where – where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.
Sarah Palin -
There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a special civilisation with a special culture. Putin is pushing that now.
Simon Sebag Montefiore -
Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The truth is that Putin is war and crisis.
Boris Nemtsov -
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.
Bill Clinton -
You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price, you may succeed in silencing one man, but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.
Alexander Litvinenko -
Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.
Hannah Teter -
I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.
Ashton Carter -
I know what needs to be done... We need to write a report "Putin. War", publish it in huge numbers and hand it out on the streets. We will tell how Putin unleashed this war. That's the only way to defeat propaganda.
Boris Nemtsov
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That's exactly what Donald Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.
Eric Bolling -
You only get back what you put in.
Catherine Cox -
I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.
Hillary Clinton -
Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of course, the secret police force of the Soviet Union.
Anne Applebaum