American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

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

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

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

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

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

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

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Where there is love, there is abundance.

It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.

It's easy to move on when things are so bad that you can't stand them anymore. It's harder when they're just mediocre.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

God is truth and light his shadow.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.