Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.