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.

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

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

[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.

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