Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

You cannot compare any leaders in our country to what Vladimir Putin has done.

I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

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

The culture and values of many former Soviet republics really do differ from what prevails in the West.

The West is pathetically naive about Russian reformers. We long to believe they are real liberals, but no liberal will ever rule Russia.

Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II and Gorbachev.

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors.

Putin is lovely.

Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

Russia is an interesting place because they're extremely evil but they're not that good at implementing their evil.

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

Russia and China deride western democracy and deploy both hard and soft power to promote their alternative models of political development.

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.

I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

Dictators are interesting, no?

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.

Russia is an Evil Empire.