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

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

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

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

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]