Vladimir Putin Quotes

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or would you prosecute it in the future with elder-stalk squirts charged with rose water? Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones?.... I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq

Assad is not the greatest ally to have.

Advocating war is easier when you and your family are not endangered by it.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.

After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams." Now if we say, "No more Iraqs," the next one won't be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can't learn lessons.

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

We know about bad guys, what they do, and often, who they are. The politicians have chosen to send us into battle, and that's our trade. We do what's necessary. And in my view, once those politicians have elected to send us out to do what 99.9 percent of the country would be terrified to undertake, they should get the hell out of the way and stay there.

I would not have gone into Iraq.