The strange religious analogies continued throughout the evening. Though he never used the name Moses, you could sense it in his voice. He does have a point with the whole mountain thing though. It's especially remarkable when you consider what he did while he was there, and the number of enemies he made. He's worried about China getting out of hand.
Human beings are only perfect in test-tubes.
It's what they decided. And had I decided to use force to stop them, I wouldn't be sitting here tonight. He argued quite eloquently that what he was doing with Perestroika was not setting up a hard and fast blueprint for Russia's future, but rather was simply setting down some ground rules, much like the Founding Fathers did with the Constitution. With that, he also argued for the need to create a new civilization. We're beyond the point where capitalism and socialism matter.