Vladimir Putin — "I don't believe in miracles. I believe in hard work."

"I don't have a phone. I don't use a mobile phone."

"A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization."

"Western elites are not hiding their goal – to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. It means to be done with us once and for all."

"I don't think there is anything funny about me."

"Greetings to your president. What a mighty man he turns out to be! He raped 10 women — I would never have expected this from him. He surprised us all — we all envy him."