the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

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

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.