The most important thing is who counts the votes.

History punishes those that come late to it.

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.