If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.

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

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.