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If you want to go after Putin, go after his money and if you want to go after his money go after the oligarchs.
Indeed, for Russia, inconsistency is an integral part of its foreign policy strategy, particularly under Putin.
He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.
'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.
When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.
I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.
Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.
The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.
I have no relationship with Putin. I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him.
I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.
In a system created by Putin, it is only possible for Putin to win. I am realistic about who will become the president.
Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.
Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me.
I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.
Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.
But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could better understand him.
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.
If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with 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.
Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.
I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.
Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.
Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.
President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin.
I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.
We have a very strong politician of global stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage.
Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.
Putin should prove that he wants to be our friend by declassifying files of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.
If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.
Leaders' like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives.
Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
I don't know one person who has changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump because Vladimir Putin wanted them to do that.
You can't just chant 'Putin, go away!' because it doesn't make any sense at this point. We need to chant: 'Putin, give back our votes!'
The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.
Putin has all the power under his control, all the security forces, all the billions of dollars he needs. It's mad to pretend otherwise.
True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
The Putin regime's income comes from oil and gas exports. If we could crash the price of these commodities, we could bankrupt the regime.
Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership.
Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria.
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.
Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal.
The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.
Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.
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.