Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

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

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Basketball, Running, Yesterday

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.322, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

• No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Thinking, President

  "Gorbachev Blasts American 'Imperialism'". News conference, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2007.

• The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Unique, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

• Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Regret, People, Majority

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp, Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

• Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Work, Mean, Past

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “A road to the future: address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the plenary meeting of the Forty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988”

• The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Today, Nuclear

• Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Mistake, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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