Vladimir Putin

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

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.

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

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.

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

I don’t mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I’ve had quite a few tough ones in my life. But I learned an important lesson along the way: In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if a few corporations control the information system: in fact, that is the essence of democracy.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

We – we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks…. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

All political theories assume…that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ…in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.

…the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

I myself know some people who are gay. We’re on friendly terms. I’m not prejudiced in any way.