"The breakup of the Soviet Union was a crime. It was a betrayal of the people."

"If we do not move forward, we will be left behind. We will be condemned to stagnation."

"The Soviet Union is not an empire. It is a union of free peoples."

"I want to live in a world where there is no war, no poverty, no hunger."

"I believe in the triumph of reason. I believe in the triumph of humanism."