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America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

History punishes those that come late to it.

We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of
information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

The socialist tradition ... goes back to Jesus Christ,
not (Karl) Marx.

The most important thing is who counts the votes.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life.

If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century ... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Every US President has to have a war.

The new European Soviet.

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

The threat of a world war is no more.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes

I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Dangers await only those who do not react to life.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

Life punishes those who come too late.

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

It's America calling the shots in everything

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

Montreal, this wonderful town ... Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare
is a struggle for winning people's minds.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.