If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the open. They base themselves upon the force of public opinion. They have at their disposal such instruments as, for instance, the League of Nations. This is to the advantage of the friends of peace.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

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

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

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