Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.

You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.

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

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.