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We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

From Mikhail Gorbachev

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

From Mikhail Gorbachev

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

From Mikhail Gorbachev

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

From Mikhail Gorbachev

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

From Mikhail Gorbachev

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

From Mikhail Gorbachev

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

From Mikhail Gorbachev