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. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
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… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
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… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
“You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.” — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
