"The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay a…"

"Russia will never be a second-rate power."

"I want to apologize for our unfulfilled dreams. What we thought would be easy has proved painfully difficult. I would like to apologize for having failed to justify the hopes of the people who believe…"

"I'm not a hero. I'm just a man who tried to do his best."

"I am tired of being president."