Vladimir Putin Quotes

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.

In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.

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.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.

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

At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

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