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You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.
A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.
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.
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part.
For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.
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.
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.
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 an 'evil empire.'
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
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.
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.
It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.
Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.
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.
Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.