I'm a sailor, not a politician.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.