The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

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

We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care