I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.
I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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