Zitat des Tages von Vladimir Putin:
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.
I am not prejudiced in any way.
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
My personal position is that society must keep children safe.
I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.
The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.
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.
Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
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.
I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.
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.
I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
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.
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.
Thieves must sit in prison.
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.
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.
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.
We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.
The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.
Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
I believe that the presidential term should be limited.
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.
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
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.