the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

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

Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me.

Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.