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.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

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

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

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

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.'
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

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.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

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.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

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.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
- Mikhail Gorbachev Quote