“The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!”

I trust no one, not even myself.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.

A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

Quantity has a quality all its own.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

On her daughter: And she’s going through all these changes. You know, it’s just crazy times.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.

You can complain about what you can’t change or you can focus on what you can change.

You are the only person you can actually change.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.