Vladimir Putin Quotes

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

The situation is extraordinary. It is militarism run stark mad. Unless someone acting for you can bring about a different understanding there is some day to be an awful cataclysm.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

[Vladimir] Putin trampled on international rules and sovereignty of the Ukraine.

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

Our Russian policy must not be dictated by people who have already made up their minds there is no possibility of working with the Russians and that our interests are bound to conflict and ultimately lead to war. From my point of view, this is an untenable position and can but lead to disaster.

The Cold War didn't end. It was won.

The problem is not so much that they are Communists as it is that they are Russians.

Libya is a huge disaster.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who has promised to start a no-fly zone in Syria, which amounts to a declaration of war against Russia.