According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

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

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.