I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

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

It's America calling the shots in everything

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

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.