The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.