My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

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

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

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

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.