[At the Air Force One ceremony, Bush recalled Reagan's 1982 prediction in London that freedom and democracy would leave communism on the] ash heap of history ... tear down this wall. |
[French President Jacques Chirac sent his] very sincere condolences ... during this cruel ordeal. |
[Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the pope, said the pontiff condemned communism during the two's first meeting in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.] We had a really interesting, albeit perhaps too emotional conversation, ... He told me he ... was very, very critical of communism. |
[Yeltsin's current limited work schedule was] totally unacceptable, ... It is not for this role that we elected a president with immense constitutional powers. |
A birthday party will be a modest one, and I shall celebrate it with relatives and friends. |
a great deal is still to be done before stability develops into national accord. |
A true leader, a man of his word and an optimist, he traveled the journey of his life with dignity and faced courageously the cruel disease that darkened his final years. He has earned a place in history and in people's hearts. |
Africa must be allowed to trade itself out of poverty, |
America has a right to be a leader, ... this leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination. |
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. |
As a human being, I want to support Boris Nikolayevich (Yeltsin) and wish him recovery, ... the president's health is also a political matter. |
But America needs to get over that. It has responsibilities as well as power. I say this as a good friend of America. |
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. |
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. |
Democracy must learn to defend itself. |