Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live. — Garry Kasparov

Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.

Anatoly Karpov and I donated the prize fund from our 1986 world championship match to the Chernobyl victim relief fund.

We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it.