Vladimir Putin

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

U.S. society doesn’t want to play the role of international policeman.

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

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.

On behalf of our nation, I want to apologise to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure.

Don’t be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

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.

Being president doesn’t change who you are – it reveals who you are.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

But you really have to think through the talk about nonviolence. Sure, everybody’s in favor of nonviolence rather than violence, but under what conditions and when? Is it an absolute principle?

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

I hold it to be… a detestable maxim that, politically speaking, the people have a right to do anything.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.