Vladimir Putin Quotes

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

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.

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

There is no common ground between us and Iran.

It's better to get along with Russia than not.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

Much of the relationship between the peoples of two countries has nothing to do with treaties or pieces of paper exchanged by people like me.

The simple fact about alliances is that different nations have their own interests.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.

I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.

Russia isn't going to start a war. They can't afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.