It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Die, but do not retreat.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.