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

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.

We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.