Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
Mikhail GorbachevYou are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
Mikhail GorbachevIn 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.
Mikhail GorbachevIf what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
Mikhail GorbachevFurther global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
Mikhail GorbachevI remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?
Mikhail Gorbachev