The most important thing is who counts the votes.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

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

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.