Chrystia Freeland Quotes

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

It's a very popular sport [in America] to talk about power struggle[s] in the Kremlin.

You cannot compare any leaders in our country to what Vladimir Putin has done.

Putin is lovely.

The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great power on par with America. It is a gas station run by a corrupt, autocratic regime.

Let's not make out as though I will be the winner. I won't be. Putin will run and he will win.

Putin really assumed that once Trump - who had such clear admiration for him - was elected, it would be convenient for Trump to change the relationship with Russia profoundly and instantly.

All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.

If I ever get to meet Vladimir Putin, I will probably take my top off and challenge him to an erotically charged wrestling match, which I will let him win.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

I know Russia well.

I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America.

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors.

In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?

I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.

If Trump, for whatever reason, continues to coddle Russia, then Congress, the media, foundations, and academics should publicly detail the corruption that characterizes Putin's rule.

Vladimir Putin has to create foreign enemies, and he also has to justify... he has to claim... he can't acknowledge that there's a legitimate protest against his authoritarian rule, so he's got to blame it on Hilary Clinton.

Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.

Our potential adversaries are watching us, and they have seen what has happened to us... This is why we're dealing with a very problematical and troublesome Putin, and we're dealing with Iran in a very terrible agreement we had.

I've learned over the years to hear what Putin is railing against in his own railing way.

We have a very strong politician of global stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage.

While Democrats, including Barack Obama, mocked the notion that Russia is the greatest threat to our country, nobody has been tougher on Russia and Vladimir Putin than President Donald Trump.