Any cook should be able to run the country.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.