We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

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.