No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

It's America calling the shots in everything

Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.