Vladimir Putin

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.

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.

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.

With regards to big business, I spoke about this a few years ago at one of the public meetings with our business leaders. I warned them that this situation, which we see today, could develop. I warned them about this and recommended at the time that our business keeps its capital in Russia.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

The internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

Economic control…is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served.

I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives.

I mean, the Pentagon is in no sense a defense department. It has never defended the United States from anyone. It has only served to conduct aggression. And I think that the American people would be much better off without a Pentagon.

I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

And [Saudi Arabia] is strongly backed by the United States and its allies, Britain and France. Reason? It’s got a lot of oil. It’s got a lot of money. You can sell them a lot of arms, I think tens of billions of dollars of arms.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

It’s only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it’s not terrorism.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don’t eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels use the border unimpeded like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the U.S.

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.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.