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

We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

A 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.