I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

I don't like to look a man in the eye.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.