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

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.