“Any cook should be able to run the country.”

How can you make a revolution without executions?

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.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.

Trust is good, but control is better.

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration 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.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

A win for the American economy is a win for the Japanese economy.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

We cannot and will not walk away from our obligation to at long last face the reckoning on race and racial justice in the country.

I’m convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

We would like to make the Japan-US alliance even more solid in the new era of Reiwa.

Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.