Donald Trump Quotes

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

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

Putin is lovely.

Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

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

He's my idol. Putin is a beauty.

I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.

Vladimir Putin is not our friend and never has been.

I am not afraid of Putin, so I go and challenge him on the elections.

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.

Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character taking root on American soil. Trump's reasons for aligning with Putin have been more innocent, if no less dangerous.

By heralding President Xi Jinping's accession to permanent leadership, soliciting Vladimir Putin's reentry into the Group of Seven, and declaring that Kim Jong Un is 'beloved by his people,' Trump legitimizes the very behavior that U.S. presidents opposed for decades.

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

Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

In Russia, Vladimir Putin is viewed as a progressive Democrat.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

And most worryingly, it wouldn't surprise me if Putin ends up starting a major military conflict with the West at some point in the future to save his own skin as head of state in Russia.

We've just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they're dealing with a strong American president.

Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, all countries will respect America far more when I'm leading it, far more than they do under past administrations.

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He's hit a brick wall in a few areas. I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over. You can be a great power that's respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.