Quotes by Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Government

Pairs

Sock

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Flames

Mean

Men

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Mud

Politician

Sake

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges – challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

Challenges

Character

Europe

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won’t last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

Freedom Of Speech

Lasts

War

I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: “Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.

Lying

Our Society

Principles

I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

Forgive Me

Past

People

I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

Believe

Blood

Men

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.

Crazy

Mad

Tree

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

Mistake

Peace

Stress

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Escaping

Europe

Flames

Forgive Me

Freedom Of Speech

Glasses

Government

Ideas

Important

Inspirational

Lasts

Leader

Lying

Mad

Mean

Men

Mistake

Money

Mud

Our Society

Over You

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People

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Politician

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Ready

Reform

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Quotes by Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges – challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won’t last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

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.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

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