It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

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.