Vladimir Putin Quotes

It's better not to argue with women.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.

I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn't fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U.S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read books, Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and others. Listen to music. Tchaikovsky. Watch our classical ballet. But the most important thing is that you need to talk with people.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

I'm asking : if the Kosovars have the right to self-determination, why should people on Crimea not have it? I would say: everyone should comply with uniform international rules and not want to change them any time one feels like it.

The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.

It is my greatest desire, I want the people in Russia to be happy and I want our partners around the world to seek to develop relations with Russia.

There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.

We will work with any Administration and with any President in whom the American people have placed their trust. That is, of course, if they wish to cooperate with Russia.

All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.