Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.