Boris Yeltsin Quotes

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Some people say that with Oslo, hundreds of people were killed. But without Oslo there would have been thousands of people killed.

Do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

Give the Serbs 48 hours, and if they don't release the hostages, bomb them to hell.

Russia has the right to deliver preventive strikes against bases of bandits, wherever they are located, including the territory of Chechnya.

The civil war in Sri Lanka has been one of competition for control of territories between the warring parties .... Control of areas in the North and East province seems to be the objective of military strategy, rather than defeating the enemy.

I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.

It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.