Vladimir Putin

I think our Russian Football Union must play an active part in this… and develop a new generation of sportsmen and soccer players.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‘gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.’ Nope.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

President Reagan put it best: Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

It’s a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

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.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences…Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

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.

You should never be so high and mighty you can’t listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her – with the goal of saving him.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

The overwhelming majority of women accept the patriarchy and protect it. Traditionally, the violated wife offloads her aggression onto the daughter-in-law. Men dominate women through the agency of women themselves.

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.