173 Quotes by Boris Yeltsin

We have done a lot in the past, ... I think this meeting will be effective and will bring good results.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed

Everything that is aimed at countries present here, ... all of those weapons are going to have their warheads removed.

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.

Bill Clinton hopes that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will capitulate, give up the whole of Yugoslavia. We will not allow this. This is a strategic place.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Everybody will pay taxes and there will be no exceptions.

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.

Every day new problems which need to be addressed urgently are building up, ... Those that already exist are becoming more acute.