We Need A New System Of Values,

We Have No Right Ever To Forget That Psychological Warfare Is A Struggle For Winning People's Minds.

The Shortage Of Fresh Water Is The Major Ecological Problem Of This Moment.

On The Day I Became Soviet Leader, In March 1985, I Had A Special Meeting With The Leaders Of The Warsaw Pact Countries And Told Them: 'you Are Independent, And We Are Independent. You Are Responsible For Your Policies, We Are Responsible For Ours. We Will Not Intervene In Your Affairs, I Promise You.'

New Approaches Are Needed, New Orientations In Both Thought And Action. We Must Make The Transition To A New Civilization...we Are Talking Of A Transition Toward A New Civilization. No One Knows What It Will Be Like. What Is Important Is To Orient In That Direction... I Am Convinced That A New Civilization Will Inevitably Take On Certain Features That Are Characteristic Of, Or Inherent In, The Socialist Ideal.

Without Perestroika, The Cold War Simply Would Not Have Ended. But The World Could Not Continue Developing As It Had, With The Stark Menace Of Nuclear War Ever Present.