Amy Klobuchar Quotes

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

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

In power for 16 years now, Mr. Putin and his global propaganda machine aggressively promote the idea that democracy is a chaotic mess that only the hero Putin can save Russia from falling into.

Putin has all the power under his control, all the security forces, all the billions of dollars he needs. It's mad to pretend otherwise.

Putin is lovely.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

The army and the government needs a dictator.

In the battle between democracy and totalitarianism the latter adversary will, without question, win and will control the world. The era of democracy is finished and the democratic system bankrupt. There is not room in the world for two different systems or for two different economies.

That should be a goal of U. S. policy—not to get along with dictators.

It is doubtful that President Mubarak or the Saudi Royal family will allow elections that might sweep them from office.

Engagement is better than non-engagement except in the case of some really horrible countries.

Where is the democracy that British gave us? Ayub Khan robbed us of it. And what did he give us in return ? He gave us his own version of democracy which does not even deserve the name of democracy.

Despotisms usually ground themselves upon the theories of extreme democracy.

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.

I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

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