"A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying."
— Boris Yeltsin

January 1, 1970

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Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999)