Boris Yeltsin Quotations..

• Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
  Boris Yeltsin # Communism, Idea, Political Quotes
• 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 # Freedom, Appretiation Quotes
• 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 # Important, Encouragement, Different, Thinking, Freedom Quotes
• You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
  Boris Yeltsin # Achievement, Politics, Negativity Quotes
• I want to apologize for our unfulfilled dreams. What we thought would be easy has proved painfully difficult. I would like to apologize for having failed to justify the hopes of the people who believed that we would be able to make a leap from the gloomy and stagnant totalitarian past to a bright, prosperous and civilized future at just one go.
  Boris Yeltsin # Dreams, Experience, Freedom, Failure, Hopes, Communism, Future, Challenging Quotes
• You have to be more careful in a world filled with all types of weapons, some of which are in the hands of terrorists.
  Boris Yeltsin # World, Negative, Bad, Terrorism Quotes
• We are grateful to those who at difficult times showed solidarity with us, with what the people of Russia are going through, and still are doing so.
  Boris Yeltsin # Experience, Appretiation, Difficult, Teamwork, Society, Achievement Quotes
• 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 # Politics, Life, Negative, Friendship Quotes
• My soul aches when I think about hungry soldiers, unpaid officers and their families, who have been suffering for years without a home of their own.
  Boris Yeltsin # Negative, Sad Quotes
• 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 # Understanding, Difficult, Emotional, Experience, Learning, Crisis, Challenging Quotes
• A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
  Boris Yeltsin # Government Quotes
• A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
  Boris Yeltsin # Terrorism, Negative, Bad Quotes

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