Vladimir Putin Quotes

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.

Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others.

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

… a people occupied as we are in opening rivers, digging navigable canals, making roads

Other interests of high importance will claim attention, among which the improvement of our country by roads and canals, proceeding always with a constitutional sanction, holds a distinguished place. By thus facilitating the intercourse between the States we shall add much to the convenience and comfort of our fellow-citizens, much to the ornament of the country, and, what is of greater importance, we shall shorten distances, and, by making each part more accessible to and dependent on the other, we shall bind the Union more closely together.

Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.

We need to strengthen basic infrastructure in border areas so that people don't migrate to other places looking for better opportunities.

After securing security, we can be confident that our achievements will be safeguarded and also have the capacity to construct infrastructure such as regional railways, airports, and highways that will facilitate trade and help us to integrate faster.

CPEC will play its important role for eliminating terrorism and extremism and poverty alleviation in the region.

Economically, the business development of the greater Hyderabad region has made the city integral to the state.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.

China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.

Our friends are happy with the CPEC project, while the enemy is quite unnerved due to this gigantic project.

We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.

India's states must compete, not march in lockstep, if India is to develop its own path to sustainable prosperity.

U.S. infrastructure projects ought to support workers and create jobs in South Bend and Gary, not in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don't want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.