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I don't want to suggest that Trump is emulating Putin. Trump is his own creation.
It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.
With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
LGBT people are at the heart of President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on democracy.
The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.
Nothing more threatens Vladimir Putin than not being able to track his own citizens.
I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America.
Donald Trump himself has financial ties to oligarchs in Russia who are close to Putin.
I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.
So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.
When I was 18 and was studying in university, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia.
I've learned over the years to hear what Putin is railing against in his own railing way.
Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good.
Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way.
Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.
Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.
Let's not make out as though I will be the winner. I won't be. Putin will run and he will win.
No way Putin will let anyone take away his power. Even if all the people of Russia voted for me.
I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.
I do respect Putin. I respect a lot of people. But that doesn't mean I'm going get along with him.
Getting rid of the Magnitsky Act is one of the top, if not the top, priorities of the Putin regime.
If [Vladimir] Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what, folks, that`s called an asset, not a liability.
Interpol was set up to catch fugitives, not act like the long arm of Putin going after his enemies.
You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.
Putin looks at her and he laughs. OK? He laughs. Putin. Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles.
When Putin says good things and when we have a possibility of having a good relationship with Russia.
It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.
I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.
There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.
Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.
It is a vital British and European interest to demonstrate to Putin that Trump is on our side, not his.
I think Putin will have to find a way to signal, even if it's a modest signal, an openness to dialogue.
On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.
While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.
Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.
So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion.
Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.
I don`t know that I`m going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there`s a good chance I won`t.
The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.
It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.