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" The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people. "
Vladimir Putin
Society
Own
People
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. "
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" I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way. "
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" The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space. "
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Space
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" The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that. "
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Power
Possible
" The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final. "
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Democratic
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" I think happiness is love. "
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Think
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" Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia. "
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" 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. "
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Care
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" The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. "
Vladimir Putin
Adventurous
Public
Debts
" When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels. "
Vladimir Putin
Intelligence
Information
Got
" Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. "
Vladimir Putin
Enemy
Russia
NATO
" I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody else. We have always behaved, and we will continue to behave, in a responsible way. We intend to participate in the elaboration of common rules in the energy sector and to abide by rules which are developed together. "
Vladimir Putin
Always
Together
Energy
" It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin. "
Vladimir Putin
Any
Sides
Origin
" I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government. "
Vladimir Putin
Head
Grateful
Government
" It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. "
Vladimir Putin
United States
Become
Military
" I swim almost every day, a thousand meters. "
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Day
Every Day
Thousand
" Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union. "
Vladimir Putin
Party
People
Understand
" Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. "
Vladimir Putin
Illusion
Nobody
Never
" 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. "
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First
Partnership
Step
" In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent. "
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Police
Independence
Independent
" I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. "
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Principles
World
Foundation
" A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia. "
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Interest
Work
Russia
" Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence. "
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Security
Independence
Military
" Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. "
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Calling
Am
I Am
" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "
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Medicine
Sometimes
Government
" In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president. "
Vladimir Putin
Hands
Constitution
Defense
" Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. "
Vladimir Putin
Looks
Yes
Natural