We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

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

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

In 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.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.