You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

The new European Soviet.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

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.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.