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

The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.