Boris Yeltsin Quotes (5 quotes)

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„We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.“
― 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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„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 other towns and villages of our country.“
― Boris Yeltsin ―
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„I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.“
― 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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Boris Yeltsin
Author born: February 01, 1931
Author died: April 23, 2007
Nationality: Russian
Author Profession: Statesman

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