Vladimir Putin

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

Some say we need to help (billionaire Roman) Abramovich and other Russian businessmen who have ended up in a difficult situation… I wouldn’t want to speak right now about those people who have broken various laws. I am speaking about people who acquired their capital through legal means. The former and the latter are better off being in Russia.

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

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

Based on our preliminary calculations, we may in the next six years spend 17 trillion roubles (Putin said billion, but meant trillion), but to achieve the goals that we have discussed, we will need an additional 8 trillion roubles. And it is clear where we are going to find them.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That’s why we have government.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

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

One fundamental goal of any well-crafted indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases ‘revenue enhancement’. Not so. No one was fooled.

Individual liberty…demonstrate[s] that some manners of living are more successful than others.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

Debate cannot be stilled, and indeed, in a properly functioning system of propaganda, it should not be, because it has a system-reinforcing character if constrained within proper bounds. What is essential is to set the bounds firmly.