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

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.