Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.”

“What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.”

“Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.”

“Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.”

“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.”

“Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.”