I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

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

We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.