Economy Quote by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great…

— John McCain

In a sense, the central problem in U.S.-Russian relations has been a form of psychological projection. Putin views foreign policy as a means of…

— Tom Malinowski

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

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

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

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature.…

— Ashton Carter

Putin is not a strategist at all. He has brilliant tactics, but he is a very bad strategist overall. And I think he is…

— Ilya Ponomarev

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

— Garry Kasparov

We have for decades now, and I've dealt with the Russians for 35 years, we have from time to time been able to, even…

— Ashton Carter

So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

“Many will argue that such views of Putin are hyperbolic. As I watch politics in the UK and US implode under Russia’s destabilisation effort…

— J.J. Patrick