After a talk I once gave two parents came up to me asking if their boy could ask me something. "What is a Putin?", the boy asked. "Do you know what a ventriloquist is?", I replied. "No…" "A ventriloquist is a person who can sit in Moscow, and when he speaks, the words come out of the mouth of a white doll sitting on his lap." "But what is a Putin?" "A Putin is a person who can sit in Moscow, and when speaks, the words come out of an orange doll sitting 7800 kilometers away in Washington."