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> [One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/one-of-the-reasons-why-this-country-undertook-military-action-in-iraq/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

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## More by Mikhail Gorbachev

> [Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/gentlemen-comrades-do-not-be-concerned-about-all-you-hear-about/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/we-have-no-right-ever-to-forget-that-psychological-warfare-is-a/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/the-most-puzzling-development-in-politics-during-the-last-decade-is/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/in-effect-according-to-lenin-socialism-and-democracy-are-indivisible/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/the-shortage-of-fresh-water-is-the-major-ecological-problem-of-this/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/if-people-don-t-like-marxism-they-should-blame-the-british-museum/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/the-time-has-come-to-choose-a-new-direction-of-global-development-to/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/in-russia-there-are-those-who-make-their-money-in-criminal-ways-but-i/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/without-perestroika-the-cold-war-simply-would-not-have-ended-but-the/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/what-happened-to-the-soviet-union-happened-mainly-for-domestic/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/women-prevent-the-threads-of-life-from-being-broken-the-finest-minds/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/for-the-first-time-ever-we-have-confronted-in-reality-the-sinister/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/a-new-world-order-is-taking-shape-so-fast-that-governments-as-well-as/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/it-seems-that-the-most-important-thing-about-reagan-was-his-anti/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

> [The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/the-threat-of-environmental-crisis-is-the-international-disaster-key/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

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