Putin Quotes - Page 5

• There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

  John McCain

  Country, Thug, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, "Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we'll stop it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Iran, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat does. But people need to mobilize and build up small-d democratic institutions to prepare against that eventuality.

  Jonathan Chait

  Thinking, Russia, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

  David Remnick

  Europe, Economic Sanctions, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Donald Trump is going to have to live in the real world in which Vladimir Putin is exactly who he presents himself to be, and Putin is extremely skilled. He's not going to make it very easy for the United States or Germany. And he's going to test Trump.

  David Remnick

  Real, Tests, United States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Russia, Iran

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• I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Ideas, Moscow

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I wouldn't place much stock in numbers. I don't believe that they reflect Putin's true popularity. Just think about how the pollsters proceed. They call people and they ask them questions on the street. In today's Russia, it takes a lot of courage to tell a stranger something critical about the head of the Kremlin. And yet more than 20 percent do so nonetheless.

  Garry Kasparov

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.

  Newt Gingrich

  Strong, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Aleppo, Mr. Putin has directed his military to conduct a devastating campaign. He's targeted schools, markets, not just assisted Syrians in doing it, his military has targeted schools and markets and other civilian infrastructure. It's resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, School, Campaigns

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Russia, Dictatorship

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• If [Vladimir] Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what, folks, that`s called an asset, not a liability.

  Donald Trump

  Likes, Assets, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don`t know that I`m going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there`s a good chance I won`t.

  Donald Trump

  Chance, Knows, Good Chance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia.

  Paul Ryan

  Russia, Differences, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Genius, Newspapers

  "First meeting for Trump and Putin: what will the power dynamics reveal?" by Julian Borger, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2017.

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• I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me.

  Donald Trump

  Respect Me, Knows

  "Frontline". "Putin’s Revenge", www.pbs.org. 2017.

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• The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has not been the fact of Russian hacking. The cyber world is full of information gathering, you know, propaganda, et cetera. I have been concerned about the degree to which, in some circles, you've seen people suggest that Vladimir Putin has more credibility than the U.S. government. I think that's something new.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Circles, Government

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Views, Abandonment, Historic

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his people are scumbags 'cause Trump wants to help [Vladimir] Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing their resources.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has made abusing your wife legal, and transgender bathrooms have just been disallowed in school. There are all these political setbacks. And there's no question that those setbacks are very real and need to be treated as civil-rights issues.

  Stephen Marche

  Hate, Real, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump has taken a lot of positions that are anti-establishment. Donald likes the idea that he can maybe break through. Putin obviously likes him.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Taken, Break Through, Ideas

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That's Putin.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Views, Leader, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't think Trump is naïve about the Russians... I don't see him giving any chips away. Trump is a much better negotiator than Vladimir Putin. He is not going to be taken.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Taken, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Particularly when we are a country where leaders turn over every few years and - I mean, in Russia, Vladimir Putin has been in charge for 17 years and counting, right? That`s a disadvantage for us in terms of knowing the players, having a long-term plan, right?

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Mean, Player

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't believe Vladimir Putin is a killer, a threat to France, to others in this region. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion.

  Marine Le Pen

  Believe, Done, Killers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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