“Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity number...” — Masha Gessen Quote

“Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able to mobilise the population against an enemy and that imagined enemy is the United States.”

“There's nothing effective against Trump. Trump is Trump. Trump is going to lie. Trump is going to act the way he's acting. No amount of reason, no amount of criticism, no amount of anything is going to work to change Trump's behavior. Putin is exactly the same way.”

“First of all, radical beliefs are not a predictor of terrorist behavior: most people who hold radical beliefs never become terrorists, and some terrorists don't hold radical beliefs.”

“As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.”

“So many women are financially dependent on men. So why can't men be dependent on women? I'm totally okay with it.”

“There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.”