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.

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

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

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

Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party