Politics Quote by J.J. Patrick

In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Stop pyschoanalyzing Putin, and recognize that there is a certain mind set. The West must draw a line under 'Putinography' and just get on…

— Fiona Hill

From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the…

— Garry Kasparov

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

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

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 and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating…

— Alexei Navalny

“Like most regimes not based on genuine popular support in an era of open access to information, Putin’s is inherently unstable and requires vigilant…

— Gregory Feifer

In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our liberal values,…

— Daniel Fried

Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.

— Margarita Simonyan

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

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