It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times. — John McCain Copy Share Image
The world's patience with Putin's repeated pattern of malign behaviour has worn thin. — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We cannot sit idly by as Chinese government officials act as puppets for Vladimir Putin's regime. — Young Kim Copy Share Image
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The idea is that Putin-Trump would be a win-win for the Kremlin, as they have mutual interests and alliances. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that [Vladimir] Putin is responsible for this crime, whether or not he gave the order to commit the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has embarked on a systematic challenge to the West. The goal is to weaken the bonds between Europe… — Ivo Daalder Copy Share Image
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“I can distinctly hear the beatings of the wings of the angel of death,” it went, in improbably elegant English, which Litvinenko… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
Barack Obama took over after Vladimir Putin's first aggression, in Georgia. In 2009, he did the reset policy because they had these… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
As commander in chief, I will not speak to Vladimir Putin until we've set up that no-fly zone; until we've gathered our… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir]… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Putin is not a strategist at all. He has brilliant tactics, but he is a very bad strategist overall. And I think… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
I think what Secretary Ash Carter is seeing, and I'm glad he is, is that we got to get NATO back working… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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![“There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in [Vladimir] Putin's defense of his cronyism. There's no moral equivalency there.” quote by Benjamin E. Sasse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f1/benjamin-e-sasse-24669_america_there-is-no-equivalency-between-the-unit_2608901.jpg)
![“There is no doubt that [Vladimir] Putin is responsible for this crime, whether or not he gave the order to commit the murder [of Boris Nemtsov] himself. Putin created the conditions and atmosphere that have made this kind of thing possible.” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c15/garry-kasparov-910_atmosphere_there-is-no-doubt-that-vladimir-putin-is_811990.jpg)
![“We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir] Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to…” quote by Benjamin Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc8/benjamin-carson-955_abundance_we-should-use-our-economic-power-in-lots_2315513.jpg)
