Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

Life punishes those who come too late.

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.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.