Yeltsin Quotes
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We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.
— Boris Yeltsin
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
— Boris Yeltsin
I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.
— Boris Yeltsin
I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.
— Vladimir Sorokin
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
— Boris Yeltsin
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
— Aleksandr Lebed
Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.
— Boris Yeltsin
The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
— Salman Rushdie
It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.
— Helen Caldicott
You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
— Boris Yeltsin
Say it for me, Rainy. No other man.
— Kenya Wright
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
— Boris Yeltsin
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
— Boris Yeltsin
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
— Boris Yeltsin
While others are broadcasting be listening
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
— Boris Yeltsin
Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.
— Thomas Haden Church
The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
— Boris Yeltsin
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.
— J. K. Bharavi
I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.
— Boris Yeltsin
