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

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.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.