"Putin is like the bored kid in the back of the classroom slouching in his chair and not paying attention"

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir"

"I think they sit there across the pond in the U.S., sometimes it seems … like they're in a lab and they're running all sorts of experiments on the rats without understanding consequences of what they're doing, why would they do that? Nobody can explain."