...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

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.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.