The press is our chief ideological weapon.

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

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

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

Words got the power to hurt or heal.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

Communism is just one big telephone company.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.