Boris Yeltsin Quotes
You can slice me up if you want to, but it won't do you any good.
He was answering protesters and critics of his economic policies which led to dramatic price increases.
Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007, Mayor, Moscow (Russia), President, Russian Republic, Statement to Protesters, January 15, 1992
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Later made more famous by being quoted by President Ronald Reagan in facing down Congress over legislation by threatening the use of the veto.
Nixon was a very aggressive campaigner, with a great flair for smearing opponents. Kennedy had been an intellectual, Ivy League gentlemen type and his brother, his campaign manager, wanted JFK to get down in the mud with Nixon. He was more assertive than usual and didn’t back down, but he did not go for the low blows that had been readied for him.
Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian and former Soviet politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with conservatism and Russian nationalism.
