Explore more quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Action, Today, Yesterday

"If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum."

People, Blame, Marxism

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

Now,

"I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life."

Life, Chaos, May

"Democracy must learn to defend itself."

Democracy,

"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"

Politics, Reputation

"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."

Life, Democracy, Public

"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."

People, Driving, States, United

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

Goal, Fantasy, May

"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."

Wisdom, God, Earth, Improvement

Exlpore more Diplomacy quotes

"Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it."

George Washington, American President

Diplomacy, First, Force, Will

"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Diplomacy, Blood, Europe, Forget, Nations

"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Diplomacy, Actions, Words

"We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them."

Abdul Kalam, Indian Statesman

Diplomacy, History, Life, Culture, Land

"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Diplomacy, Home, Lie, Lying, May

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

Diplomacy, Water

"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Diplomacy, Eyes, Will

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Diplomacy, Government, Home, Time, Country

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Diplomacy, Man, Nothing

"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Diplomacy, Nation, Respect