The 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 GorbachevPeace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Mikhail GorbachevA new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.
Mikhail GorbachevThough representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.
Mikhail Gorbachev