I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.