Care Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

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 is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now.…

— Ilya Ponomarev

The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive…

— Garry Kasparov

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 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 needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you…

— Anatoly Karpov

People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

— Mitt Romney

Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something…

— Garry Kasparov

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

— David Remnick

You've gotta understand what Putin's strategy is. He really doesn't like democracy. He thinks it's an inconvenient, messy process. And he doesn't like us,…

— Stephen Colbert