If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
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.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
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.
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That’s the most important thing.
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.