Stalin's methods did not help.

The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.