Vladimir Putin

The threat of mutual destruction has always restrained participants of the international arena, prevented leading military powers from making hasty moves, and compelled participants to respect each other. U.S. withdrawal from treaties on anti-ballistic missiles is an attempt to put an end to strategic parity, but we will respond to this.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it’s fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you’re going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.

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.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

The Federal Constitution… disavowed beforehand the habitual use of compulsion in enforcing the decisions of the majority.

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.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

I want every individual who has the potential and qualifications to succeed in higher education to be given the opportunity to participate, whatever their family background.

[Overseas] we build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school, we build another school, we build another road, they blow them up, we build again. In the meantime we can’t get a f**king school in Brooklyn.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy, it’s the country’s legacy.

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

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.

Americans have a severe disease – worse than AIDS. It’s called the winner’s complex.

You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.

Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.