Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

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

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.

I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.