Quotes by Vladimir Putin

“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.”

“My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.”

“The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.”

“My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.”

“At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.”

“If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Ru...”

“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 lo...”

“I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichme...”

“If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.”

“The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshri...”

“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 con...”