It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think you must do in the interests of the country, which put you in such position, such post as the Head of the Russian State.

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.