Boris Yeltsin at Randall's

<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir= "auto">“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</span></p> <p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">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.</span></p> <p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America. —Eric Hoffer</span></p>