Politics Quote by David Remnick

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland…

— George Packer

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

“Putin has positioned himself as the leader of an authoritarian, xenophobic international movement that wants to expel immigrants, break up the European Union, weaken…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

— Malcolm Nance

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 wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall…

— David Remnick

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he is rebuilding.…

— Alexei Navalny

Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration…

— Garry Kasparov

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

— Ksenia Sobchak