At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.

Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.