Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

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.

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

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

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.