I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

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

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

New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition toward a new civilization. No one knows what it will be like. What is important is to orient in that direction... I am convinced that a new civilization will inevitably take on certain features that are characteristic of, or inherent in, the socialist ideal.

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