Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

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

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

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

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

...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.