Character Quote by Ben Shapiro

There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of…

— Corey Flintoff

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.,"…

— David Brooks

Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the…

— Svetlana Alexievich

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is…

— Anna Politkovskaya

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing…

— David Brooks

Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And…

— Marvin Kalb

Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of course, the…

— Anne Applebaum

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

— Tim Kaine

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

— David Brooks

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

— Adam Kinzinger

Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Putin is just maneuvering. He wants to be respected. He wants to be an important player in global politics. He wants people to negotiate…

— Ilya Ponomarev