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• You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
• I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my…
• International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought…
• The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall…
• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia…
• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means…
• There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors…
• I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they…
• We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya
• We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking…

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