Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
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.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.