In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

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

You can hurt some of the people some of the time, you never can hurt all the people all the time but you can love all the people most of the time.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

There is a dog in every man.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.