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You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 2
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Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
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There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.
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You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
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Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.
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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.
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In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.
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I began to feel the desire for something more I wanted to do something to make things better.
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History punishes those that come late to it.
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The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
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It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.
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The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
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Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
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The threat of a world war is no more.
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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.
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