The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

The threat of a world war is no more.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.