We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

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

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

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

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.