...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.

It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.

If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.

We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

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

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