God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.

An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part.

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

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

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