I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would…

He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes…There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that…

— Dan Rather

I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me…

— Margaret Thatcher

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House,…

— Ronald Reagan

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry…

— Stephen Cohen

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition,…

— Cyrus Broacha

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most…

— Stephen F. Cohen

“Although at the time I didn’t realize this, the Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev had begun promoting ‘glasnost’ or political openness throughout the Soviet…

— Andrea White

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

— Armie Hammer

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

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress…

— Teri Hatcher

Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev.…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like…

— Ram Dass

“In 1985, then-General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, cut back on nationwide vodka production and passed a law…

— Martin Lindstrom