No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

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 got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel.

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

Nothing brings closure to a campaign like opening it up again.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.