Mikhail Gorbachev Government Quotations

Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.

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

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability...