Mikhail Gorbachev Inspirational Quotes (79)

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

The most important thing is who counts the votes.

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.

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

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