"I am a man of my time. I did what I could."

"I am not afraid of glasnost. I am not afraid of criticism. I am not afraid of democracy."

"The greatest achievement of perestroika is freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of choice."

"Without glasnost there is no perestroika."

"The greatest danger is not the external enemy, but the internal one. Stagnation, bureaucracy, corruption."