I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

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

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

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

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.