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

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

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.