Mikhail Gorbachev America Quotations

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.

America has a right to be a leader, ... this leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

It's America calling the shots in everything

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

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.

Every US President has to have a war.

Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.