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Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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.
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)
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.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.