There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

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

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

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.

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