All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

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

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

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

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.