The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me.… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva]. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
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… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
