"The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time."

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Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

Boris Yeltsin

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“I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.”
“No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.”

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“Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.”
“I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.”
“I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.
“The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.”
“A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.”
“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

Source : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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