"He's only the most important political leader alive in the world today, historically speaking....If you look over the course of our lifetimes, who was the most, well, you go back to Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt....If I look back over my lifetime, who is the world leader who changed things the most, and I don't actually think it is a close call."
– Newsweek's Jonathan Alter on Mikhail Gorbachev, April 27, 2001 Imus in the Morning on MSNBC
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