"Democracy must learn to defend itself."
Mikhail Gorbachev"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination."
Mikhail Gorbachev"The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy."
Mikhail Gorbachev"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars."
Mikhail Gorbachev"I paid too heavy a price for perestroika."
Mikhail Gorbachev"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."
Mikhail Gorbachev"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."
Mikhail Gorbachev"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."
Mikhail Gorbachev