Details Quote by Marco Rubio

Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with somebody who…

— Masha Gessen

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

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

The question is whether Donald Trump recognizes that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And I guess there's no indication that he regards Putin…

— David Brooks

I don't think there is much that Donald Trump does that can be understood through the idea of ideology. I think he does whatever…

— Zohran Mamdani

Part of the people here are interested in the same thing that Putin is interested in: Putin wants to have America as an enemy.…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

You can usually figure what Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing and why by noting the actions and values he falsely projects onto others.

— Tom Malinowski

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

— Bill Browder

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'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

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

Trump respects people who are selfish about their country. Putin is a guy who is very selfish about Russia and about the Russian federation,…

— Michael T. Flynn