I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

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.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.