I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

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

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

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