Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Dangers await only those who do not react to life.

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

Life punishes those who come too late.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

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.

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

The new European Soviet.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.