The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

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

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.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.