Even If They Turn Me Out,I Will Never Leave the Country: Mikhail Gorbachev at the Literaturnaia gazeta Editorial Offices

Arkadii Udal'tsov, editor-in-chief of Literaturnaia gazeta: Three weeks ago in this same room, number 206, we met Richard Nixon. In opening the meeting, I said that at least in America there are no such things as ex-presidents. I would have liked for that tradition to have existed in our country. Just as there are no former ambassadors, so there would no longer be any former presidents.