Quotes by Boris Yeltsin

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.

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

Oh, where is the poet or bard who will compose an ode to Russian rumours? Thanks to the chronic shortage of truthful (or even false) information, our people live on rumours.

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.

Today is the last day of an era past.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

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.

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.