Putin Quotes · Page 6

Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to…

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

— Bernie Ecclestone

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

— Mary Matalin

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

— Hillary Clinton

“Do you think he has met Putin? Do you think anyone has really met Putin? Is he the kind of guy you…

— Allison Raskin

Trump himself has seemingly courted the favor of Russian President Vladimir Putin since the 2016 presidential campaign.

— Neera Tanden

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

Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests…

— Paul Craig Roberts

In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our…

— Daniel Fried

I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's…

— David Petraeus

Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this…

— John McCain

So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he…

— Alexei Navalny

If Trump, for whatever reason, continues to coddle Russia, then Congress, the media, foundations, and academics should publicly detail the corruption that…

— Richard N. Haass

I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in…

— Edward Snowden

President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores…

— Joe Biden

It was Hillary Clinton who worked with Russia on the New START Treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. It was Hillary…

— Tim Kaine

I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his…

— Vladimir Posner

We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues…

— Sarah Palin

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia…

— Ivan Krastev

“Today the Internet is the everyman’s platform. To control it, Putin would have to control the mind of every single user, which…

— Andrei Soldatov

Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war…

— Anne Applebaum

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

— Ralph Nader

No way Putin will let anyone take away his power. Even if all the people of Russia voted for me.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Are you aware that people who oppose Vladimir Putin wind up dead all over the world, poisoned, shot in the back of…

— Marco Rubio

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

— Hillary Clinton

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

— Jack Keane

The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

— Mark Shields

Those who criticize Putin are not human: they are my personal enemies.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime…

— Alexei Navalny

The world respects President Trump. And I believe that Vladimir Putin does as well.

— Katie Britt

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

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

— John Podesta

The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

— Steve Inskeep

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

— Adam Kinzinger

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

— Bill Browder

But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could…

— Conchita Wurst

I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will…

— Donald Trump