Vladimir Putin

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn’t exist in the world, you know. There’s not one such country anywhere in the world.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. ‘Superpower’ is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

[Mexico] ripping off the US more than almost any other nation

I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

{on Mexico] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

[on Trump] The winning candidate, now the president-elect, calls for rapid increase in use of fossil fuels, including coal; dismantling of regulations; rejection of help to developing countries that are seeking to move to sustainable energy; and in general, racing to the cliff as fast as possible.

Sometimes – history needs a push.

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.

We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don’t think people didn’t know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.