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Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. -- Henry Rollins
Vladimir Putin uses fascist propaganda to do so. From Ukraine to Syria, he is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation. -- Garry Kasparov
Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever. -- Garry Kasparov
I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch. -- Jay Leno
It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria. -- Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France. -- Garry Kasparov
The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists. -- Dennis Miller
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed. -- Garry Kasparov
If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I'm all for it 100 percent and I can't understand how anybody would be against that. -- Donald Trump
I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented. -- Donald Trump
I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin. -- Sean Hannity
If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel. -- David Zaslav
Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition. -- Corey Flintoff
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott. -- Harvey Fierstein
Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption. -- Joe Biden
[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position. -- Garry Kasparov
Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network. -- Alexei Navalny
In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell -- Strobe Talbott
Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do. -- Nancy Pelosi
Will I get along with [Vladimir Putin]? I have no idea. -- Donald Trump
I think I'd be able to get along with Vladimir Putin. -- Donald Trump
Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather. -- Garry Kasparov
As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine. -- Gerhard Schroder
Vladimir Putin, from everything I see, has no respect for Hillary Clinton. -- Donald Trump
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. -- Alexei Navalny
Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans. -- Ralph Nader
There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia. -- Paul Ryan
He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States. -- Hillary Clinton
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control. -- Garry Kasparov
[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin. -- John Heilemann
Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President. -- Donald Trump
I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin. -- Mitt Romney
I don't know Putin. I have never met Putin. He is not my best friend. -- Donald Trump
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. -- Benjamin E. Sasse
We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. -- Garry Kasparov
Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has. -- John Podesta
Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. -- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way. -- Donald Trump
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia. -- Jill Stein
He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me. -- Rudy Giuliani
With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it. -- Bernie Ecclestone
If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him. -- Donald Trump
The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech. -- Benjamin E. Sasse
The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance. -- Mark Shields
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values. -- Garry Kasparov
Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin. -- Jeb Bush
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. -- William J. Clinton
What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin. -- David Brooks
If [Vladimir] Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what, folks, that`s called an asset, not a liability. -- Donald Trump
I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president. -- Hillary Clinton
Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics. -- David Remnick
I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do? -- Donald Trump
So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC. -- Julian Assange
I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable. -- Hillary Clinton
When Putin says good things and when we have a possibility of having a good relationship with Russia. -- Donald Trump
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia. -- Garry Kasparov
I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good. -- Donald Trump
It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously. -- E. J. Dionne
Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us. -- Hillary Clinton
Putin looks at her and he laughs. OK? He laughs. Putin. Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles. -- Donald Trump
You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line. -- Ted Cruz
I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button. -- Carly Fiorina
I do respect Putin. I respect a lot of people. But that doesn't mean I'm going get along with him. -- Donald Trump
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. -- Rand Paul
You look at what Vladimir Putin is doing with President Obama. He's, like, toying with him. He's toying with him. -- Donald Trump
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Putin has outsmarted Hillary Clinton and Obama at every single step of the way. Whether it's Syria, you name it. Missiles. -- Donald Trump
I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot. -- David Remnick
When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin. -- Marco Rubio
The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it. -- Mary Matalin
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
The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics. -- E. J. Dionne
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. -- David Letterman
We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe. -- Andrea Tantaros
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent. -- Masha Gessen
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. -- Kelly Ayotte
Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests. -- Joe Biden
I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country. -- Mike Pence
If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us. -- Rudy Giuliani
Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe. -- Hillary Clinton
I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister. -- Alexei Navalny
I never met Putin. This is not my best friend. But if the United States got along with Russia, wouldn't be so bad. -- Donald Trump
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. -- George Packer
Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin. -- Tim Kaine
Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin. -- Pope Francis
I have no relationship with Putin. I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him. -- Donald Trump
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
Today Russia announced that it will join America's fight with the terror group ISIS. Then Putin said, "But I did not say which side. -- Jimmy Fallon
I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more. -- Boris Nemtsov
America is so outplayed by Putin and Assad, and by the way - and by Iran. Nobody can believe how stupid our leadership is. -- Donald Trump
I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. -- Donald Trump
I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin. And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia. -- Donald Trump
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
One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership. -- Michael T. Flynn
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes. -- Garry Kasparov
Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin. -- Tim Kaine
Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists. -- Jake Tapper
Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity. -- Mike Pence
Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda. -- George Packer
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion. -- George Packer
Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different. -- Garry Kasparov
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
Vladimir Putin celebrated his 63rd birthday today. He had a nice party, but it got awkward when two of his friends got him the same country. -- Jimmy Fallon
Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all. -- Benjamin E. Sasse
We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire. -- John McCain
U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness. -- Noam Chomsky
[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world. -- Michael Morell
For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable. -- Claire McCaskill
I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that. -- Jeb Bush
Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country. -- Rudy Giuliani
On September 11, 2001, Russia's then-president, Vladimir Putin, called U.S. President George W. Bush - making Putin the first international leader to speak with Bush after the attacks. -- Sergei Lavrov
I don`t know that I`m going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there`s a good chance I won`t. -- Donald Trump
There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played. -- Michael Morell
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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
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation. -- Rand Paul
Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world. -- David Remnick
There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship. -- Donald Trump

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