Bully Quote by Kelly Ayotte

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a…

— Jeb Bush

We are being bullied around the world by Russia and China.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

— Garry Kasparov

I do think that when we're looking at Putin's actions, we really need to look further into what his point is. Because I think…

— Clarissa Ward

President Trump understands that President Putin does not like to be insulted. Putin takes it very personally. He harbors a grudge. He doesn't forget.…

— Fiona Hill

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

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

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

Will I get along with [Vladimir Putin]? I have no idea.

— Donald Trump

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are…

— John McCain

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