America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

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

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?'

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

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