"Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?"

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Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States and the rest of the world. But these people ignore one very important thing: The Russian people will never agree to this scenario. Russia is ultimately a self-sufficient country.

— Mikhail Gorbachev