Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
- Vladimir Putin Quote

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
- Vladimir Putin Quote