Vladimir Putin

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.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

I believe I have mentioned that President Trump – well it’s his first presidential term and he’s gaining momentum, he’s building up his experience in this field and we’ve had a dialogue on this issue [North Korea]. He listens to what I’m saying, he listens to my arguments.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

One dog barks at something. And a hundred dogs bark at the sound.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward-you will never get her full confidence again.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

The more I learn about people, the better I like my dog.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.