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Danh ngôn của Mikhail Gorbachev (Sứ mệnh: 9)

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
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.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
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.
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.