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

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.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

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.