Author of quotes: Leonid Mlechin

Putin is perhaps sincere when he says that he did not seek presidential power. He, unlike Brezhnev, did not start any intrigue. But in reprisals against cheated supporters, as well as against opponents, he is tougher.

Leo Tolstoy has spoken out strongly against private ownership of land. "The earth is the property of all, and all people have the same right to use it", - he wrote to the reformer 23 Oct 1907. "You consider evil what I consider good for Russia, - confidently said the great writer Stolypin. - I think that the lack of ownership of land from the peasants and creates all of our confusion... you can Not love someone else along with her and not obihazhivat, improve land loaner, along with their land. Emasculating our peasants, destroying it innate sense of ownership leads to poverty. And poverty, for me, the worst of bondage..."

The population of Russia - one hundred and forty million-plus people, and it comes to presidential elections - nobody to choose from! The current system does not allow a young man with political temperament to Express themselves in public life, to Mature, to prove their worth in the competitive struggle, to win the sympathy of voters. Why not see new faces.

Power is the only thing that brings pleasure always. All other pleasures bring only temporary joy. Moreover, in our country, all other pleasures, are attached to power. The big boss of anything knows no failure. Everyone else constantly have to overcome obstacles. We are at every step confronted with people who do not love us and tell us "no". And the head of the country say "Yes." Any desire will be fulfilled. Lost power - lost everything. Who will leave on his own?

There are two reasons that push policy upwards. One burning inside a lust for power. Say this without a shadow of condemnation. Officer, who dreams of becoming a General, and ought not to be. He is not endowed with the necessary for a commander, and command qualities. The ambition and ambition of the necessary policies. He must want power and to be able to handle it. The second reason is a kind of messianism, the inner assurance policy that he is born in order to accomplish something great, to realize an idea or dream. Both Putin and Medvedev was at the helm sufficiently random. At least they're not wanted. But Putin woke up all these passions. And Medvedev, I think, deprived them.

Non-conformism - the desire to question what seems natural and accepted by all without a doubt, that is the opposition to all things - the necessary critical thinking person like a fish to water. What is the politicization of the intelligentsia? In a primitive protest against the existing order, in which the main thing - money and power. The ruling circles perceived this view as a challenge.

The correspondent of the British newspaper the guardian, Jonathan Steele asked Vladimir Putin, why Russia has behaved aggressively and inappropriately in Georgia:
- It seemed that it was not the policy of protection, and the policy of revenge.
- Do we had to wipe the bloody snot and bow? - said Putin. - What do you want us there with a pocket knife waving? And what is the proper use of force against us when using tanks, heavy artillery, we should catapult to shoot? Those who started, had to understand that they will receive the full face of the program...

Vladimir Putin was in Beijing at the Olympics. At the opening ceremony, they sat next to President George Bush.
"I was afraid that the Russians would storm into Tbilisi and overthrow Saakashvili, recalled Bush. - It was clear that Russia will not tolerate the democratic side, Georgia's Pro-Western President... I told Putin that Russia is isolating itself, if it does not withdraw its troops from Georgia. Vladimir said that Saakashvili is a war criminal and he provoked Russia.
You were warned that Saakashvili is a hot blood, I said Putin.
- I also have hot blood, - said Putin.
I looked at him.
- No, Vladimir, ' I said. - You cold-blooded".

What is good for the officials of "foreign footprint"? He immediately disclaims responsibility! Time the crime was prepared from the outside, so they are not to blame. "Strangers" is generally a universal justification. The police chief explains that the city's crime rate is high, because the criminals - guest performers, newcomers: I will catch them if they immediately leave?.. The wrestler with the drug says that the problem of Afghan heroin. The Americans in Afghanistan want to destroy opium poppy crops. Specially poison our country with heroin... And read Newspapers - our local drug addicts are dying from bad things. And where do they get the money for the imported heroin? Chock-full of cheap poison of domestic production. "A foreign trace" saves not only from liability, but from having to work hard in the Russian province and offers a wonderful opportunity to get out of the nice comfortable trips abroad in the Western countries. There, at international conferences as a particularly good, just in the pleasure, the struggle against international terrorism, drug trafficking and other afflictions of the modern world...

The famous writer Boris Strugatsky said in an interview with "Novaya Gazeta":
- In the eyes of large numbers of people Putin is the last hope that we all finally "settled". Salaries will be issued on time and they are great. That pensions will not be below the subsistence level. That thieves will go to jail. That the street in the evening you can go without fear. That Russia will revive as a great power... It is the last hope of millions of people who first had faith in the Communists, then the Democrats and in all of these Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov - all. Remained the last hope - good king. Good, strong, powerful and sensible. And all this hope focused on Putin...

Putin is undoubtedly one of the most intelligent and cultured of heads of state in the modern history of Russia, - wrote Professor Dmitri Yefimovich Furman. First, after Lenin, knows a foreign language and never sibusiso accented with... Putin is very well liked. Some, of course, hate. But he no one calls those contemptuous ridicule and shame, which used to cause the powerless citizens, many of our all-powerful rulers...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn refused to take Russia's highest order from the hands of Yeltsin, but he accepted the State prize from Putin.
"Putin - said Solzhenitsyn in an interview with the German magazine "der Spiegel" in 2007 - went to the country, looted and shirlena down, demoralized and impoverished majority of the people. And he took up possible - we note a gradual, slow recovery of her. These efforts were not immediately noticed and appreciated all the more. And can you cite examples in history when measures for the restoration of the fortress of public administration met favorably from the outside?.. The West, celebrating the end of an exhausting cold war and watching a half dozen years of the Gorbachev-Yeltsin anarchy and inside delivery of all items outside, very quickly got used to oblegchenno the idea that Russia is now almost a third world country, and always will be. When Russia again began to strengthen, economically and the state, it was perceived by the West - perhaps on a subconscious level, are deeply ingrained fears, panic..."

Say that in 2002 Putin in a conversation with one of major Western representative spoke about the possibility of Russia joining NATO. He said that the North Atlantic bloc does not send invitations. Have how all, to apply. And Putin seems to be answered:
Russia in turn does not arise.
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The stumbling block was again the expansion of NATO to the East, the inclusion of the block of those States that in Moscow consider to be their natural partners. While Putin has consistently avoided answering the question: why are almost all of Russia's neighbors so eager to join NATO? Not because I do not trust Moscow and you want her to protect?
- I would not say that NATO is the stinking corpse of the cold war, said in December 2007 Putin. But it is certainly something that we have inherited from the past...

The experience of Chile shows that nuts must not be tighten and lubricated regularly with good oil, turn gently and in the right direction.