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

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.

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

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

Life punishes those who come too late.