I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.
— Vladimir Putin
The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.
Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.
The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.
I love soccer.
Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.
It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.
Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him.
At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.
I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.
I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.
Europeans are really dying out!
My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.
The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.
You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually.
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China's largest investment funds.
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.
Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.
Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.
No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.
We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.
In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.
China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.
The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.
I am not prejudiced in any way.
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
