If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used.… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It… — 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