203 Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

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.

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

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.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

History punishes those that come late to it.