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

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

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

We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.