The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

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.

Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.