Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

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

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

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

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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