Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

• Mitterrand has 100 lovers. One has AIDS, but he doesn’t know which one. Bush has 100 bodyguards. One is a terrorist, but he doesn’t know which one. Gorbachev has 100 economic advisers. One is smart, but he doesn’t know which one.

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• Life is making us abandon established stereotypes and outdated views; it is making us discard illusions.

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• If the Russian word ‘perestroika’ has easily entered the international lexicon, it is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring; that is, progressive development, a fundamental change.

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• Some comrades apparently find it hard to understand that democracy is just a slogan.

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• What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

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• We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

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• The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

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• The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

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• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

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• The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

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• Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

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• Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

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• My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.’

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

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• If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.

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• If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

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Mikhail Gorbachev (27)

Birth:	2nd March, 1931
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

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