Putin Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  David Brooks

  Order, World, Norm

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Believe, Nsa

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

  Mark Shields

  Russia, Alliances, Missions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

  John McCain

  War, Criminals

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• [Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and desired goal of Russian aggression against Georgia than South Ossetia, which merely served as a pretext. Concerns mainly centered on the Crimea.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Safety, Goal

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

  Garry Kasparov

  Motivation, Soul, Black

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a bit of a hero because he speaks for traditional values, he's against the global institutions.

  David Brooks

  Hero, Groups, Conservative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the KGB who was a climber. He was forever hoping, climbing that ladder, trying to get to the head spot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kgb, Climbing, Forever

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.

  Randy Newman

  Running, Party, Russia

  "Randy Newman's first new song in years is about bare-chested Vladimir Putin". Interview with Geoff Edgers, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2016.

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• The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Mitt Romney

  Election, Backbone, Flexibility

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• The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.

  Anne Applebaum

  Mistake, Party, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Likes, Assets

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't know that I'm gonna get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Would Be, Chance

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, Government, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's said that Putin can't stand Hillary Clinton. I don't know that for a fact, but it certainly looks that way, but I think her approach to Russia stands up pretty well.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, Russia, Facts

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 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.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Vote, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won'€™t provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us.

  Rich Lowry

  Military, War, Ukraine

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• We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

  Rich Lowry

  Lying, Believe, President

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• That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that we have with - Canada. We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America where - where do they go? It's Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Powerful, Eye, America

  "The question is: Can Palin give a coherent answer?". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. September 26, 2008.

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• After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.

  Sarah Palin

  Army, Russia, Ukraine

  “Palin on Ukraine: I called it” by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

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• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, People, Office

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• Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election, he'll get more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Eye, Russia, Glasses

  "Еhe third debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney". www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Political

  George W. Bush's Statement on Tax Agreement, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 1, 2001.

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