Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

I chose a man and he chose me

Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party