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We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.
— Boris Yeltsin
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
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 most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
— Boris Yeltsin
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
— Boris Yeltsin
You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
— Boris Yeltsin
Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.
— Boris Yeltsin
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
— Aleksandr Lebed
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
The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
— Boris Yeltsin
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