Mikhail Gorbachev

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

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.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

What I won’t do is take in two hundred thousand Syrians who could be ISIS… I have been watching this migration. And I see the people. I mean, they’re men. They’re mostly men, and they’re strong men. These are physically young, strong men. They look like prime-time soldiers. Now it’s probably not true, but where are the women?… So, you ask two things. Number one, why aren’t they fighting for their country? And number two, I don’t want these people coming over here.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That’s the way it’s done in the U.S., and that’s the way it’s done in Russia.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

The understanding that a third world war could be the end of civilization should restrain us from taking extreme steps on the international arena that are highly dangerous for modern civilization.

An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

The blacks want always Democrats … You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare … Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan.

Throughout the two leadership campaigns I read quite a lot of Oscar Wilde.

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.