Currents Quote by Jaroslaw Kaczynski

When Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan are mentioned in the same breath here in Germany, as they are all too often, this is a…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous…

— David Brooks

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

— Donald Trump

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out…

— Bashar al-Assad

I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.

— Masha Gessen

I don't think I've ever met Putin. I mean if he's in the same room or something. But I don't think so.

— Donald Trump

Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism,…

— Andre Vltchek

[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on…

— Martin Schulz

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.

— Donald Trump

There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in its content,…

— Van Jones

I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no reservations. He…

— Anne Applebaum