America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Source: In Parade, 23 Jan 1994.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev, (Mar 2 1931-____), Russian political leader; He was Secretary General of USSR, 1985-92; initiated glasnost; won Nobel Peace Prize, 1990; Time magazine's Man of the Decade.