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" 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. "
Democracy
Rest
Society
" A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. "
Never
Society
Become
" 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. "
People
Teeth
Driving
" Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. "
Organization
Live
Life
" Democracy must learn to defend itself. "
Learn
Defend
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. "
Country
Experience
Own
" Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. "
Government
Support
United
" I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. "
May
Me
I Am
" I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life. "
I Believe
Chaos
Believe
" I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change. "
Thought
Wait
Leader
" I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world. "
Need
China
Goal
" If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared. "
Disappear
Die
Environment
" If not me, who? And if not now, when? "
Me
Now
Who
" If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. "
British
People
Museum
" If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today. "
Looks
You
Today
" I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life. "
Life
Water
Way
" 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. "
Space
Life
Women
" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "
Price
Paid
Heavy
" I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God. "
Again
Atheist
Believe
" I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes. "
Some
Think
God
" 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. "
Think
Environmental
Problem
" 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. "
Democracy
Government
People
" It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. "
Destruction
Better
Plans
" It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' "
Empire
Important
Reputation
" It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. "
Think
Work
Today
" Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. "
Better
Seek
Mankind
" More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. "
Democracy
Life
Socialism
" My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could. "
Life
Did
Been
" On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.' "
You
Leader
Will
" Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight. "
Think
Terrorism
Political
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