You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.

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.

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

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?