Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.
Mikhail GorbachevThe 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.
Mikhail Gorbachev