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

The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

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

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.