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A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Boris Yeltsin

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

Ideas Sky Talking
I will not step down, I will not resign, … I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.
BORIS YELTSIN

Office Running Years
I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That’s my way to relax.
BORIS YELTSIN

Crazy Mad Tree
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

Affairs Country Ideas People Rights
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
BORIS YELTSIN

Country Independence People Remember
I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.
BORIS YELTSIN

Believe Blood Men
One could see that what you are writing was that today’s meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
BORIS YELTSIN

President Time Writing
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: “Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.
BORIS YELTSIN

Lying Principle Society
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
BORIS YELTSIN

Money Temptation Tests
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

Flame Mean Men
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

Country People Population
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country… They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
BORIS YELTSIN

Clouds Country Night
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
BORIS YELTSIN

Government Pairs Sock
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
BORIS YELTSIN

Action Issues Killing
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
BORIS YELTSIN

Challenges Country People Terrorism
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
BORIS YELTSIN

Firsts Hammer Wall

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

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