Mikhail Gorbachev

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. … If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

I read in Novaya Gazeta a list of all the properties owned by Roman Abramovich, and it’s incredible. I’m ashamed.

It’s Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

I believe that President Trump of the United States does not need any advice because one has to possess certain talent and go through this trial to be elected, even without having the experience of such big administrative work. He has done this.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia’s good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

The United States could become a color-free society. It’s possible. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but it’s perfectly possible that it would happen, and it wouldn’t change the political economy, hardly at all.

It’s alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

In a situation of occupation or domination, the occupier…has to justify what it’s doing. There is only one way to do it — become a racist. You have to blame the victim. Once you become a raving racist in self-defense, you’ve lost your capacity to understand what’s happening.