Vladimir Putin

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.

We’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Americans believe their freedom to be the best instrument and surest safeguard… to secure for themselves a government which will allow them to acquire the things they covet and which will not debar them from the peaceful enjoyment of those possessions.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

In some intellectual circles, it is considered naive or foolish to be guided by moral principles. About this form of idiocy, I will have nothing to say.

Anarcho-syndicalism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, that they ought to control the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations…

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

The U.S. government played a significant role [in the 1965 Indonesian genocide] by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed them, former U.S. diplomats say…

My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.

Michelle’s not somebody who wants to be deeply involved in policy development. She’s my closest friend and my most important adviser. But I don’t anticipate her sitting around the table trying to figure out tax policy. She’ll probably choose a project that she cares about. But her number-one priority is going to be these kids, and making sure that their transition is one in which the wonderful normalcy that they have is maintained.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

Black lives must not matter until black people start respecting black lives and stop killing ourselves.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.