What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.