Putin Quotes · Page 6

When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed…

— Garry Kasparov

In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a…

— Franklin Graham

The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue…

— Garry Kasparov

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

— Mary Matalin

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

— Garry Kasparov

I have a certain admiration for Vladimir Putin because he doesn't allow decisions to be forced upon him by other countries. I…

— Marine Le Pen

I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a…

— Newt Gingrich

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike…

— Boris Nemtsov

Putin looks at her and he laughs. OK? He laughs. Putin. Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles.

— Donald Trump

We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force,…

— Rich Lowry

The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize…

— Dmitry Peskov

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his…

— Rudy Giuliani

The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American…

— David Brooks

Putin has outsmarted Hillary Clinton and Obama at every single step of the way. Whether it's Syria, you name it. Missiles.

— Donald Trump

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

— David Remnick

Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump,…

— David Brooks

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals…

— George Packer

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

The false reporting by the media, the false, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with Russia, and…

— Donald Trump

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

Ronald Reagan is going to go into negotiations with [Vladimir] Putin from a position of strength. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave…

— Rudy Giuliani

It's said that Putin can't stand Hillary Clinton. I don't know that for a fact, but it certainly looks that way, but…

— Daniel Fried

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

— Hillary Clinton

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which…

— Henry A. Kissinger