Best Quotes by Boris Yeltsin (Top 8)
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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Yeltsin
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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.
Boris Yeltsin
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Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
Boris Yeltsin
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I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
Boris Yeltsin
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin
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The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
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A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
Boris Yeltsin