Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Thinking
  • Force
  • Terrorism