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.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.