I love soccer.
I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.
I think it’s fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.
Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
… This phenomenon has its place in the world, and it’s developing. We need to monitor and analyze what’s going on thoroughly. And at some stage we will need to look at how we can take part in this process, how we can use it to avoid all sorts of restrictions in the sphere of international financial activity, among other things.
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today’s complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world’s countries, being gay is not a crime.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.
If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.
Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
I’m sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.
President Reagan put it best: Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.
I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.
I addressed directly with President Putin the issue of Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was a message best delivered in person. Spent a great deal of time talking about it. And President Putin may very well want to address it, and very strongly, because he feels very strongly about it, and he has an interesting idea.
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
For many years, election campaigns here have been run by the public relations industry and each time it’s with increasing sophistication. Quite naturally, the industry uses the same technique to sell candidates that it uses to sell toothpaste or lifestyle drugs.
As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
