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.
Mikhail GorbachevA new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.
Mikhail GorbachevWe need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
Mikhail GorbachevI will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.
Mikhail GorbachevI certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev