Vladimir Putin

What is going on right now, it is unacceptable, it is wrong. However, it must be admitted that it is the result of inaccurate regulation, that was brought in recently in the sphere of energy, in energy resources.

They invited a large investor, Coca-Cola, to take over a plot of land in Pulkovo Heights and install high-capacity power and communications cables, hoping that other companies would follow suit. It worked. After Coca-Cola developed their piece of land, Gillette came, then Wrigley, and then some pharmaceutical companies. An economic zone thus took shape within the city, where total investment now exceeds half a billion dollars. Furthermore, with the Committee’s encouragement, the city’s infrastructure began to be modernized to create the conditions necessary for successful business. The first major deal that Putin supported was the completion of a fiber-optic cable to Copenhagen. This project had been initiated back in the Soviet era but never completed. Now the efforts were successful, providing St. Petersburg with world-class international telephone connections.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually.

Stability of tax policy must be absolutely guaranteed for the next six years.

He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Courage is grace under pressure.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Truth over Harmony.

Life is managed; it is not cured.