Vladimir Putin

Who is going to help them abroad? They are just persecuted there. Conditions are created making their work impossible. This is a big mistake by those who are doing this in the West.

By the autumn of this year, additional measures should be introduced which will stabilize the situation on the market.

Our soldiers are there (in Syria) in order to secure Russia’s interests in this critically important part of the world, which is so near to us. And they will stay there, for as long as it is in Russia’s interest for them to do so.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

KGB, collapsed. Of course it was incredibly difficult to go through this. After all, most of my life had been devoted to work in the agencies. But I had made my choice.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become!

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere.

…the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

It is quite possible-overwhelmingly probable, one might guess-that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Liberty is not merely one particular value…it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

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

Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?

I like beer

On economic policy, in particular, the striking thing about the leadership contest was that every candidate other than Mr. Corbyn essentially supported the Conservative government’s austerity policies. … The Corbyn upset isn’t about a sudden left turn on the part of Labour supporters. It’s mainly about the strange, sad moral and intellectual collapse of Labour moderates.

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.