Top 55 Ksenia Sobchak Quotes

My participation in the presidential elections can truly be a step on the path towards the transformation that our country needs so much.

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.

Even if we imagine I’m a Kremlin project, then I’m a good Kremlin project because I’m saying out things that have not been said before.

I wish I were a man. It would make my life easier in this sexist society.

When I was 18 and was studying in university, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia.

I see that I can do good, I can help free political prisoners, I can raise questions that are silenced on the national level, I can talk about Navalny and others on national television channels, and show that we have 20-30 million supporters around the country.

Any president we choose becomes a czar in Russia. I don’t want czars anymore. I don’t want to be a czar myself. I want to be a democratic leader.

You can laugh at me, but I understand show business.

Many people would vote for me, I’m quite sure.

I’m like the Russian Tyra Banks.

I do not purport to be a professional politician.

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country’s history.

Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech.

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their ‘no’ to the system.

The people are really afraid of what’s going on in Russia; they are suffering with fear, sitting at home, doors locked, because they are afraid of their government.

I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she simply doesn’t understand many things.

Well, first of all, I think that Russia has to have free democratic elections, that means everyone who wants to take part in it should be admitted.

People can’t go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren’t they going to the next protest? They answer, ‘Because we’re tired of being thousands. I’m ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don’t want to be the 10,000th. Because it’s pointless.’

I am used to people underestimating me.

I don’t have to justify myself. I work a lot and I earn a lot.

In a system created by Putin, it is only possible for Putin to win. I am realistic about who will become the president.

I’ve been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

Russia is the biggest European nation. We are Europeans, we are not Asians.

I don’t want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.

I am always getting messages that I am paid by America, that I work for America, that I am connected with CIA… blah blah blah. I am not working for America, I am working for my country’s good, but America is not an enemy for me.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

I feel like I’m in a horror film. Everywhere I turn, there’s a journalist.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

In the end, believe me, there will be no friendship between Trump and Putin.

That’s the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.

All Russian people know who I am. So I use this to the good because, you know, it’s really hard to shut my mouth off because… I’m too bright, and I’m too many years visible to everyone.

I’m a politician who’s against corruption that Putin has done in our country.

According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine’s. Period.

I’m not for seizing power, I’m for justice in the country and for democratic elections.

The machine of repression can only be started, it can’t be stopped – even by Putin.

To present me as the main face of the opposition movement is completely incorrect. I’m not a person who is ‘against Putin.’ I’m just a person who is standing up for a fair society, for free elections.

I know how to be loud.

I think in political life you can only know your position and stay in place, even though people always try to push you to one side.

There’s a view in Russian society that there are ‘male professions’ and ‘female professions.’ The women should be looking after the home and children. It makes me sad. But the only thing you can do is fight it.

My voters, my core audience, are young people in Russia, so I actually do what I need to have their support.

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.

I’m very drawn to the story of Carla Bruni. Why is everyone talking about her? Specifically because everyone sees the first lady, but they know she was somewhere, topless, and had some Hollywood lover. There is some contrast in this person. I have these contrasts.

Of course for some Putin is a tyrant and dictator. Others consider him Russia’s savior. But I’m in a difficult position. Putin helped my father – and practically saved his life.

I am who I am. Why should I hide because someone might say, ‘How can she really care when she wears Chanel?’ Actually, yes, I can care about justice even in Chanel heels.

It’s Russia. It’s a patriarchal society. That’s a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it’s widespread.

I am not afraid of Putin, so I go and challenge him on the elections.

I wanted to become a star, of course. That was very important to me. I wanted to achieve something.

Well, Trump is certainly not my hero. I’m sorry to say that, but that’s true.

The mission is to demonstrate that Russia is not Putin, that we’re ready for cooperation, and that there are a lot of people in Russia who want the U.S.-Russia relations to be improved and that we don’t view the United States as our enemy.

My goal is to make it so that the situation which we see at every election – the same candidates, the same faces… to turn the situation around and completely change it.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It’s satire. It’s a very high-level art project.

I mean, I’m a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years… This is how people in Russia know me.

I want my government to be transparent.

Yes, I love good clothes, good shoes, but I earned it.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That’s why I chose show business.