A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.


The View from the Kremlin (ed. HarperCollins, 1994)

Boris Yeltsin Quotes

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.