Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Destruction
  • Engagement
  • Arguing