- Statesman | March 2, 1931 -
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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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.
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I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
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Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
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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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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
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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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Democracy must learn to defend itself.
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The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
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