It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

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

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

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.