Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

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

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.