203 Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

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.

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.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.

The pope did everything possible to help humanity out of its era of hate.