QUOTES

 I go modern today.  Here are quotations from Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, current president of Russia.

For Vlad, I'll try to give you the year of the quotation to better put it into context.  You know, he is a former KGB intelligence officer.

2000  "There is no such thing as a former KGB man."

2004  "The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

2005  "We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead.  We understand where we should move."

2007  "People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves."

2008  "Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists.  It destroys them."  

2008  "Crimea is not disputed territory.  Russia has long recognized the borders of modern-day Ukraine."

2012  "We are not for Assad, nether for his opponents.  We want to achieve the situation where the violence ends and there wont be large scale civil war."

2014  "We are guided by interests rather than feelings in dealing with our partners."

2016  "If minorities prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. . . We will not grant them special privileges or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell discrimination."

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