Economic Quote by David Remnick

Vladimir Putin knows exactly what he wants from the relationship with USA. In return for good relations, he wants lifting of sanctions, ratification, approval…

— Michael McFaul

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

My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he…

— Leon Panetta

Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.

— Fiona Hill

Mr. Putin's goal is to push Russia's borders farther west, to control Ukraine's substantial agricultural exports and natural resources, and to destabilize Europe's and…

— Tom Suozzi

Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump because he supports this view of the world, that the big guys can carve it up, sit and talk…

— Garry Kasparov

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

— David Remnick

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Paul Craig Roberts

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed…

— Ivo Daalder