As for myself, I was never against Russia.
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...
In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.
But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.