Dictator Quote by David Letterman

Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin.

— Barack Obama

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

— Garry Kasparov

Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia…

— David Letterman

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

— Harry Redknapp

“People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.”

— Diana Gabaldon

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

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

— Lance Morrow

In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in…

— Franklin Foer

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

— Hisham Matar

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

— Khaled Hosseini

When I was touring with my Vladimir Putin biography, which was published all over the world, people would ask me, How come you're still…

— Masha Gessen

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

— Barack Obama