Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
Vladimir Putin
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.
I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth.
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
I think happiness is love.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.
The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.
We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
Thieves must sit in prison.
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.
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.
Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.
My English is very bad.
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.
The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.
You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually.
The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
