Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.


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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
In Russia, we still have a great deal of work to do.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
We spent the first days trying to get the picture. I can't agree that we were trying to conduct a sl...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
We have not yet left the past behind: its death grip can be felt everywhere.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
I think Russia is ready to cooperate. Now the question is, is the United States -- which is the only...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
There is only research for medical purposes, similar to ones that are under way in some other countr...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a h...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
a great deal is still to be done before stability develops into national accord.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Those who want Russia to continue to grow in IT should work with Russian companies, with our science...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
[At the Air Force One ceremony, Bush recalled Reagan's 1982 prediction in London that freedom and de...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
The Berlin Wall was a mark of contradictions in the world, and it became a mark of radical changes i...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Wa...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so m...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and ...
MIKHAIL NAIMY
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiousl...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
The Russian side has presented the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia with the necessa...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
European countries have not granted visas to members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who wer...
MIKHAIL MARGELOV
From this point of view the nuclear plant does not constitute any threat to the non-proliferation re...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
We expect Slovakia to join in the creation of four common Russia-EU spaces and the enhancement of co...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a h...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have t...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘The Peop...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the othe...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not enga...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is no...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
At the present time, the concerns of the international community over the Iranian nuclear program ca...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
Sanctions could only be discussed when evidence is provided that Iran is pursuing not only peaceful ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
Only the Council is authorized to make binding decisions on suspending cooperation with a state in a...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclu...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
The Iranian government has made no positive steps demanded in the February 4 resolution of the board...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
The arms export control system we have developed is one of the strictest and most reliable in the wo...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
Russia will strictly abide by the existing agreements and contracts with Western partners in the del...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
Despite the intensive three-year work, the IAEA cannot yet make a conclusion about the absence of un...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN
I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a you...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Of course I invited Bush and Margaret Thatcher and (Spanish former prime minister) Felipe Gonzalez, ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has t...
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV
While adhering to his convictions, with which one could agree or disagree, he was not dogmatic; he w...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
MIKHAIL DUDAN
Russia's position is that status issues must be discussed at the third stage of talks within the Joi...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN