Putin Quotes · Page 4

I am not afraid of Putin, so I go and challenge him on the elections.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

— Garry Kasparov

I don't know Putin. I have never met Putin. He is not my best friend.

— Donald Trump

You cannot compare me to somebody who makes apologies for Hitler. And I don't think Putin is comparable.

— Tucker Carlson

Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a…

— Mitch McConnell

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

— Mitt Romney

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

— David Remnick

The Russian government doesn't like me; Vladimir Putin doesn't like me.

— Bill Browder

President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time.…

— David Letterman

If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I'm all for it 100 percent and I can't understand how anybody…

— Donald Trump

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long…

— Conan O'Brien

President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms,…

— Conan O'Brien

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is…

— Garry Kasparov

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all…

— John McCain

President Trump understands that President Putin does not like to be insulted. Putin takes it very personally. He harbors a grudge. He…

— Fiona Hill

One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States,…

— Michael T. Flynn

The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack…

— John McCain

If Vladimir Putin is conscious and aware of his standing in the world economy, he has to understand this aggression in Crimea…

— Kelly Ayotte

Putin is not a strategist at all. He has brilliant tactics, but he is a very bad strategist overall. And I think…

— Ilya Ponomarev

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

“Mrs Merkel’s predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, took this approach furthest, becoming pals with Mr Putin and, soon after leaving office, joining the board…

— Anonymous

It will be very important for us to continue to keep up the necessary pressure, the necessary vigilance, for there to be…

— Francois Hollande

That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that…

— Sarah Palin

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs…

— Ben Shapiro

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.

— Jeb Bush

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

— Mitt Romney

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

— John Heilemann

Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more.

— Robert Black

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

— Carly Fiorina

You cannot compare any leaders in our country to what Vladimir Putin has done.

— Amy Klobuchar

Putin should prove that he wants to be our friend by declassifying files of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Lal Bahadur Shastri.

— Subramanian Swamy

What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That's Putin.

— Christopher Ruddy

I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?

— Donald Trump

Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.

— Tim Kaine

I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad…

— Yekaterina Samutsevich

I don't think anyone in the 1990s, the late '90s, anticipated that the Putin they knew then would become the Putin we…

— Antony Blinken

Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.

— Pope Francis

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

— Donald Trump

No matter who comes to Belarusian land, I will fight. Even if it is Putin.

— Alexander Lukashenko

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been…

— Donald Trump