It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

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

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.

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

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

Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.

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