Mikhail Gorbachev

Americans have a severe disease – worse than AIDS. It’s called the winner’s complex.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

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.’

As you know my wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multi-cultural so what I was going to do was go down to the mosque with him and let him talk to people there.

I like beer

Power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

If a prospective Presidential approach can’t be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn’t been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won’t “sail” anyway. Send it back for further thought.

Quite apart from the superpower confrontation, the US was committed to restoring the traditional conservative order. To achieve this aim, it was necessary to destroy the anti-fascist resistance, often in favor of Nazi and fascist collaborators, to weaken…popular organizations.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks…. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

I myself know some people who are gay. We’re on friendly terms. I’m not prejudiced in any way.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

In the midst of all the exactions of government … It is this effort, protected by law and allowed by liberty to exert itself in the manner that is most advantageous, which has maintained the progress.

Stability of tax policy must be absolutely guaranteed for the next six years.