Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.