Putin Quotes

Putin is like Al Capone.

Putin looks at her and he laughs. OK? He laughs. Putin. Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.

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

If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.

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

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good.

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

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. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

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

After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'

One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership.

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin.

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

I have no relationship with Putin. I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him.

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.

[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by bluffing. There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. Things are currently the other way around in Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.

I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.

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.

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.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

Vladimir Putin was saying very good things about me, but I don't have a relationship with him. I didn't meet him. I haven't spent time with him. I didn't have dinner with him. I didn't go hiking with him.

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'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.

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

Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin.

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

I think I'd be able to get along with Vladimir Putin.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

I have no relationship with Vladimir Putin.

Will I get along with [Vladimir Putin]? I have no idea.

Vladimir Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He's been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that.

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia.

Putin has outsmarted Hillary Clinton in Syria.

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.

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.