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Boris Yeltsin at Randall's


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“Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.” ― Joseph Alois Schumpeter

In 1989, famous Russian apparatchik Boris Yeltsin visited America. He saw our buildings, our space center, the Statue of Liberty. But what floored him -- made him despondent actually -- was a Texas grocery store he popped into. This worked.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America. —Eric Hoffer

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