The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you need to not understand your mission, but also work at self-improvement

You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Life is a series of recoveries.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.