Boris Yeltsin Quotes

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

For ten years from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was wracked by poverty and social decay: the country suffered a demographic collapse on a scale never before witnessed in an industrial country outside of wartime as deaths outstripped births and the country’s population shrank by some 800,000 people each year.

The Empress Dowager enjoins her people that only by adopting what is superior about the foreign countries can we rectify what is wanting in China.

The United States is still an enormous generator of innovation, from which other nations have long benefitted. But we now also have the opportunity to benefit from innovation taking place around the world.

We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Can one name a single nation that has not turned to the West in its quest for civilization?

Science extends an invitation to all nations.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draw all, even the most barbarian of nations into civilization.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

The United States now has as its goal much more than simply containing Soviet expansionism. We seek the integration of the Soviet Union into the communlty of nations.... Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order.

The technical progress of the last half-century has transformed our country in countless ways. But, fortunately, we have continued to keep our own customs and culture. It is up to us now, more than ever, in shaping our new country, to achieve a consolidation, in which neither the rapid progress of recent years, nor the age-old customs of our forefathers, are lost or diminished, but rather fused into a new national characteristic in which the best is preserved, while the worst may be thrown away.

You look at another team's style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they're doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

Shoji Ito was an Indophile like no other Japanese economist I have known. During the 1990s, he would frequently visit India to keep pace with the changes in the economy. We would always meet and have long conversations about India, Japan, and the world. Unfortunately, Ito-san died early.

Trade and investment are good for innovation - open economies allow new ideas and technologies to diffuse more quickly from wherever they are created.

I'm committed to structural changes.

South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.

With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.

We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.