Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

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.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

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

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.