Gorbacheva Quotes & Sayings

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory. — Raisa Gorbacheva

The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity. — Raisa Gorbacheva

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up. — Michael Jordan

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. — Barack Obama

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva]. — Mikhail Gorbachev

You make me sound like some kind of heartless ice princess.'
'No, of course not, Belle. I must admit, you have always been uncommonly nice to every pimply-faced boy who has ever asked you to dance.'
'Thank you. I think.'
'It's probably why so many pimply-faced boys ask you to dance. — Julia Quinn

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. — Raisa Gorbacheva

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity. — Raisa Gorbacheva

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem. — Raisa Gorbacheva

People want electrons to orbit atoms like tiny planets, hard and regular. They make sense that way. People like that....they don't want their electrons to exist only as a cloud of potentialities. But that's what we've got now, and we're stuck with it. Quantum mechanics isn't going to roll over and die as easily as God did. — Adam Felber

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with. — Milton Friedman

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart. — Raisa Gorbacheva

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. — Raisa Gorbacheva

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. — Raisa Gorbacheva

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. — Byron Dorgan