If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
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. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
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.' (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)
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
As a human being, I want to support Boris Nikolayevich (Yeltsin) and wish him recovery, ... the president's health is also a political matter. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the pope, said the pontiff condemned communism during the two's first meeting in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We had a really interesting, albeit perhaps too emotional conversation, ... He told me he ... was very, very critical of communism. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
At the Air Force One ceremony, Bush recalled Reagan's 1982 prediction in London that freedom and democracy would leave communism on the ash heap of history ... tear down this wall. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
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