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title: "Peter Dutton: \"the world remains optimistic that Russia's future will have more Gorbachevs and fewer Putins\""
description: "Gorbachev said, \"An optimist is someone dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs who is not resigned to it and constantly looks… for opportunities to make the world a better place… I declare myself an optimist.\""
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# [Peter Dutton: "the world remains optimistic that Russia's future will have more Gorbachevs and fewer Putins"](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/dutton)

 Written by [Victor Perton](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/author/victor-perton) | Sep 8, 2022 8:12:29 PM

In the condolence debate in the Australian Parliament for the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton said:

*"Twenty-four years after he resigned as the leader of the Soviet Union and after the dissolution of the USSR, Gorbachev wrote:*

*"An optimist is someone dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs who is not resigned to it and constantly looks… for opportunities to make the world a better place… I declare myself an optimist."*

*Today the world remains optimistic that Russia's future will have more Gorbachevs and fewer Putins. "*

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