Boris Yeltsin

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

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.

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

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

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.

Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.

For submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in every realm. The public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

I am not too happy with terms like ‘the left’, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by ‘the left’ you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

As yet we do not plan to withdraw these forces. But I direct your attention to the fact that I did not call these bases by any other name – I called them bases. We are not building long-term military structures there and if we need to, we could withdraw our military personnel very quickly, without incurring any financial losses.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Can you imagine what the outcry would be if Snoop Dogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.

[on Trump] It is not our business to asses his worthiness, but he is the absolute leader of the presidential race.

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election.