Russian Politics Quotes

We are a slack people but deeply destructive … I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!

Both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have law degrees but they do not know what the rule of law means.

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Within the Russian system, everything depends on the character of those few who hold full power in their hands. The position of the individual within present-day Russia has been described as follows: far-reaching economic security by sacrificing personal liberty.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

Putin has demonstrated his fondness for the Cold War…. Once a KBG agent, always a KGB agent.

One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are supposed to express their support for him. The Russian system is not unique in this respect, but it is rather interesting. Here, in the West, the impression that people have is that Putin runs the whole country. This is not so, at all. To a certain extent, you could say that he runs the Kremlin, and this means that it's, in some situations, hard to tell whether it's him running the Kremlin, or the people around him running him.

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

Since 2012, Putin has made it perhaps his largest foreign policy priority to have the Magnitsky Act repealed. But none of his efforts have worked. Not only has it not been repealed, it's spread to six additional countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, the Baltic states and Gibraltar.

As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.

You can't just chant 'Putin, go away!' because it doesn't make any sense at this point. We need to chant: 'Putin, give back our votes!'

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.

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.

Russia is corrupt, treacherous, shifty and incompetent.

The [Russian] Communist Party decided that policy. As a good communist, I have to go along.

I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.

Putin is lovely.

Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassina­tion when I saw his picture flashed on television.

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

When I was 18 and was studying in university, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia.