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

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

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

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

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

Democracy must learn to defend itself. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong. — Natan Sharansky

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

History punishes those that come late to it. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

It's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier. — William Safire

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

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

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed — Ronald Reagan

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. — John Major

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it. — Vladimir Sorokin

In that case, do not expect to be rescued by the Red Army, Gorbachev said. — Ken Follett

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

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

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

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev warns of major war in Europe over Ukraine. — Reuters

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

The new European Soviet. — Mikhail Gorbachev

The most important thing is who counts the votes. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Every US President has to have a war. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! — Ronald Reagan

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

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

The threat of a world war is no more. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

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

The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. — Mikhail Gorbachev

I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. — Armie Hammer

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

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

If not me, who? And if not now, when? — Mikhail Gorbachev

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev

If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Those who are late will be punished by life itself. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

The time has come to develop integrated global policies. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

Dangers await only those who do not react to life. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Life punishes those who come too late. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together. — Margaret Thatcher

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

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

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. — Frank Zappa

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

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

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

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.' — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him ... and try to make peace. — Donnie Wahlberg

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev

It's America calling the shots in everything — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

Montreal, this wonderful town ... Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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. — Mikhail Gorbachev