I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

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

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.