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.
Mikhail Gorbachev

If not me, who? And if not now, when?
Mikhail Gorbachev

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
Mikhail Gorbachev

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
Mikhail Gorbachev

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Mikhail Gorbachev

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Mikhail Gorbachev