Authoritarian Quote by Bill Browder

Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way.

— Donald Trump

Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character…

— Franklin Foer

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin. Hillary…

— Tim Kaine

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault.…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he…

— Pat Buchanan

People take the lazy way out, and do not regard Putin and the Kremlin as the real enemy. They create a long but erroneous…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Vladimir Putin, from everything I see, has no respect for Hillary Clinton.

— Donald Trump

So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion.

— Fiona Hill

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

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 I think…

— Daniel Fried

Probably Putin assumes that he's not going to be able to make a deal with me because it's politically not popular for me to…

— Donald Trump