Vladimir Putin Quotes

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.

There is endless variety in the details of the customs and laws which prevail of the world at large.

The British have never historically thought of themselves as being European. The average Britain has much more in common with an American than with a Frenchman.

That is where American foreign policy begins—with the interest, the aspirations, and the values of the American people.

Our interests are not the same as yours [the United States] because we are here and you are on the other side of the Atlantic.

Protestant Christianity ... tutored the first generations of Americans. It provided what we today would call the value system of the society.

It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world.

Human rights -- especially those of non-Moslems or non-Arabs -- simply do not have the same absolute value that they do in the West.

The separation of the West from the United States is inevitable

It is mutual fear and distrust that mostly generate world tensions and these can be traced in no small measure, like other root causes of worsening world conditions, to different people's conflicting and often intolerant, value-belief differences ...

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Most inhabitants of these post-Soviet states also resent that people in the West consider their outlook backward and reactionary.

The culture and values of many former Soviet republics really do differ from what prevails in the West.

Donald Trump, you don't stand for our values.

My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.

The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

My only experience with American things is through movies.

There's a cultural difference between India and the rest of the world.

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.