It's America calling the shots in everything

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Life punishes those who come too late.

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.