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 why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

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

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.

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.

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.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

Vladimir Putin, from everything I see, has no respect for Hillary Clinton.

Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin`s in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly while the State Department gets hollowed out, gets gutted, that`s a dream for the Russian government, right? That`s a dream for Putin.

It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.

Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way.

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

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.

I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?

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.

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.

I don't know Putin. I have never met Putin. He is not my best friend.

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.

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

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin.

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.

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.

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.

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

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, 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.

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

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.