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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
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 ofinformation science the most expensive asset is knowledge. — Mikhail Gorbachev
God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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
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
Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Every US President has to have a war.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The socialist tradition ... goes back to Jesus Christ,not (Karl) Marx. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The most important thing is who counts the votes.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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 time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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 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
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
— 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 new European Soviet.
— 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
I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The threat of a world war is no more.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
— 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
To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
— 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
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
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
— 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
It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
— 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
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
My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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
Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the 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
