The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.

No one can do the learning for you.

I crack jokes and do silly things not so that people laugh on me but because of me.

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team of senior advisers. All of their positions will now be held by a man named 'Joe the Plumber.'

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.