Putin Quotes - Page 10

• I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, Government, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't know one person who has changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump because Vladimir Putin wanted them to do that.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Vote, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Want, Levers, Calm

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as journalists. That's why [Vladimir] Putin's "fifth column" is that powerful in the West.

  Garry Kasparov

  Powerful, Russia, Effort

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Circles, Broken

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the high price that has been paid to buy the loyalty of the local elite through an enormous tribute of multibillion[-ruble] investments, all this cannot be an arrangement for good.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loyalty, Cooperation, Investment

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The situation in the [North Caucasus ] region can easily get out of control if the capital inflow is interrupted. It is apparent, even when leaving democratic institutions and values aside for a moment, that [Vladimir] Putin's regime has led the country down a blind alley. Our task is to usher in a shift of paradigms, a new foundation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Leaving, Foundation

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Europe, Important

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.

  Randy Newman

  Running, Party, Russia

  "Randy Newman's first new song in years is about bare-chested Vladimir Putin". Interview with Geoff Edgers, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2016.

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• The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.

  Kevin Drum

  Thinking, President, Campaigns

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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• As far as Putin and Russia, I don't say good, bad or indifferent. I don't know the gentleman. I hope we have a fantastic relationship. That's possible and it's also possible that we won't. We will see what happens.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Gentleman, Fantastic

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the business of the National Endowment for Democracy or American diplomats or American foreign policy to try to change the nature of that government.

  Pat Buchanan

  Thinking, Russia, Government

  "Pat Buchanan On 'America First' Under Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. January 22, 2017.

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• Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man who, when accused by Hillary Clinton of being a Putin puppet, actually responded: "No puppet! No puppet! YOU'RE the puppet."

  Gene Weingarten

  Maturity, Men, Emotional

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

  Marco Rubio

  Political, Vices, Vice Versa

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Mistake, Regimes, Made

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's said that Putin can't stand Hillary Clinton. I don't know that for a fact, but it certainly looks that way, but I think her approach to Russia stands up pretty well.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, Russia, Facts

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Believe, Nsa

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• Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

  David Brooks

  Order, World, Norm

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a bit of a hero because he speaks for traditional values, he's against the global institutions.

  David Brooks

  Hero, Groups, Conservative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

  Mark Shields

  Russia, Alliances, Missions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

  John McCain

  War, Criminals

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• We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Winter, Games

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• [Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and desired goal of Russian aggression against Georgia than South Ossetia, which merely served as a pretext. Concerns mainly centered on the Crimea.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Safety, Goal

  Source: www.rferl.org

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