Vladimir Putin

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

This is a sad negative element of the U.S. political system. One can argue, but one should not show disrespect, not even to him personally, but also to the people who voted for him.

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.

Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

To lay down… limits to the action of the government; to confer certain rights on private persons, and to secure to them the undisputed enjoyment of those rights… [are] the main objects.

This debate is now about injustice and inequality. Two years ago, it would have been about benefits scroungers. We’ve changed the language and changed the mood. Labour is in good heart.

Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.