Vladimir Putin Quotes

Is Turkey one of the Ayrab countries with which you don't get on very well?

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides.

Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

Unfortunately, when Trump meets with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador, he gives more fuel to the fire.So, I think he should stop meeting with the Russian leaders. They are not our friends. They are our adversaries.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

Many in China find it perplexing that the U.S. and Russian perceptions are still so heavily influenced by the Cold War.

Taking into consideration that we are involved in Russia's orbit, any coughing there will produce painful economic and political convulsions here.

The scorn of our formidable neighbor who does not know us is our America’s greatest danger …. Through ignorance it might even come to lay hands on us. Once it does know us, it will remove it’s hands out of respect.

America’s foreign policy has left us with more enemies and fewer allies.

One hour ago, President Johnson informed me that Egyptian forces are preparing an attack on Israeli positions and that this attack is to be launched. If such a thing happens, then the United States will consider itself freed from the commitments it gave to the USSR to exercise restraint.

The Iranians are not part of the “axis of Evil”. They are part of the axis of Medieval.