Mikhail Gorbachev
"'We are reaping the consequences of a strategy that is not conducive to cooperation and partnership, to living in a new global situation,' said Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, to a crowd of 3,600 on Oct. 19 in the Allan P. Kirby Field House and many others via a live streaming broadcast in 13 locations from coast to coast, including northern Mexico.
"'The world needs goals that will bring people together,' he said. 'Some people in the United States were pushing the idea of creating a global American empire, and that was a mistake from the start.'
"'My friend the late Pope John Paul II said it best. He said, "We need a new world order, one that is more stable, more humane, and more just." Others, including myself, have spoken about a new world order, but we are still facing the problem of building such a world order...problems of the environment, of backwardness and poverty, food shortages...all because we do not have a system of global governance.'"
"'The world needs goals that will bring people together,' he said. 'Some people in the United States were pushing the idea of creating a global American empire, and that was a mistake from the start.'
"'My friend the late Pope John Paul II said it best. He said, "We need a new world order, one that is more stable, more humane, and more just." Others, including myself, have spoken about a new world order, but we are still facing the problem of building such a world order...problems of the environment, of backwardness and poverty, food shortages...all because we do not have a system of global governance.'"
