Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

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

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

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

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.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

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

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

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

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

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

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.