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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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“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.”
— As quoted in TIME magazine (9 September 1985)
“Dangers await only those who do not react to life.”
— Speech in East Berlin (7 October 1989), in German: Gefahren warten nur auf jene, die nicht auf das Leben reagieren, but often cited as "Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben", hence the English translation: "He who comes too late is punished by life". (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 3 October 2004)
“For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.”
— During a tour of the United States, as quoted in The New York Times (5 June 1990)
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
— 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead: Solid Gold Advice from 101 of the World's Most Successful People (2004) by Michael E. Angier and Sarah Pond, p. 30
“We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.”
— As quoted in an interview with The London Daily Telegraph (7 May 2008)
“[I]t soon became clear that the museum Gorbachev wanted to build could not exist in Vladimir Putin's Russia.”
— Masha Gessen "Mikhail Gorbachev, the Fundamentally Soviet Man", The New Yorker (31 August 2022)

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No public IJR answers mention Mikhail Gorbachev yet. As people ask about it and share their answers, they'll appear here.

Notable quotes

“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.”
— As quoted in TIME magazine (9 September 1985)
“Dangers await only those who do not react to life.”
— Speech in East Berlin (7 October 1989), in German: Gefahren warten nur auf jene, die nicht auf das Leben reagieren, but often cited as "Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben", hence the English translation: "He who comes too late is punished by life". (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 3 October 2004)
“For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.”
— During a tour of the United States, as quoted in The New York Times (5 June 1990)
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
— 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead: Solid Gold Advice from 101 of the World's Most Successful People (2004) by Michael E. Angier and Sarah Pond, p. 30
“We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.”
— As quoted in an interview with The London Daily Telegraph (7 May 2008)
“[I]t soon became clear that the museum Gorbachev wanted to build could not exist in Vladimir Putin's Russia.”
— Masha Gessen "Mikhail Gorbachev, the Fundamentally Soviet Man", The New Yorker (31 August 2022)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.