“We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.”

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you’ll be successful, and that’s not fair.

To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

Everybody in Argentina can remember the hand of God in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the hand of God has brought us an Argentinian pope.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.