One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

History punishes those that come late to it.

Life punishes those who come too late.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

The threat of a world war is no more.

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.