I Paid Too Heavy A Price For

You Cannot Go To Sleep With One Form Of Economic System And Wake Up The Next Morning With Another.

We Could Still Have Continued The Arms Race, But The Arms Race Was Pointless, And It Was Another Reason We Decided To Start Perestroika. It Was Senseless To Continue To Accumulate Weapons. We Had Enough Weapons To Destroy Life On Earth 1,000 Times, And Therefore It Was Very Clear To Us That The Arms Race Could Spiral Out Of Control. A Conflict Could Have Started, As Both The Americans And The Soviets Realized, Not Out Of A Wrong Political Decision But Because Of A Failure In The Command-and-control Systems.

The Market Is Not An Invention Of Capitalism. It Has Existed For Centuries. It Is An Invention Of Civilization.

Every Us President Has To Have A War.

The Forests Of Russia And Brazil Are The Lungs Of The Earth.