We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did it and what they did, and who is responsible for this. These pictures do not answer the questions I have just posed. There is an opinion that it's a compilation by these very rebels, who are connected with al-Qaida and who were always distinguished by exceptional brutality.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.