Vladimir Putin Quotes

My work in Ukraine ceased following the country's parliamentary elections in October 2014.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

A week is a long time in politics.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as its starting on reform.

In the past decade, nearly a dozen elected Latin American presidents have been forced from office.

Recalling our history which has been characterized by political and constitutional instability …

Simply eight young men … standing amidst the ruins of one administration with the foundation of another not yet laid …. No police were functioning through the country, no system of justice was operating, the wheels of the administration hung idle, battered out of recognition by the clash of rival jurisdictions.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

There's never been a time in my life where you had the names the United States and political uncertainty in the same sentence.

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

There is no opposition party. And the party that is in power is falling apart. Doesn't that kind of mean the country's falling apart? I don't wanna be accused of being an alarmist, but if there's nothing to replace the government with in terms of an opposition party, and you see it all falling down around you, well doesn't that mean that we're all kind of screwed? It kind of feels that way to me. And I'm pretty worried about it, to be honest with you.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.