Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
I do have a relationship with Putin, and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing.
Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.
I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.
Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.
I don't know that I'm gonna get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?
For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking constituency, constructing an enemy that's really scary. It's war. And when you look at the anti-gay campaign, it's a classic case of war rhetoric: demonstrating an immediate and extreme danger.
Particularly when we are a country where leaders turn over every few years and - I mean, in Russia, Vladimir Putin has been in charge for 17 years and counting, right? That`s a disadvantage for us in terms of knowing the players, having a long-term plan, right?
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U. S. celebrates free press.
I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.
Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.
Putin is somebody who really respects strength.
By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen.
I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin. And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.
The question is whether Donald Trump recognizes that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And I guess there's no indication that he regards Putin as in any way a bad guy.
In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.
I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.
The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.
Putin needs to terrorize his own elite. He is more afraid of those in his own surroundings than any protests; there are people there who are at least as critical as I am because they see up close that the system doesn't work. He wants to silence them.
