If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

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.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Revolutions are not made for export.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

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

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

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.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect ones wishes.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Everyone's films have done well of late. So when your film doesn't do well, you ask yourself, 'Oh, did I make a wrong choice?' And I strongly feel that it's your choices that make a good career. The track record has to be good.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

Learn to fail with pride – and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error – by mastering the error part.

I’ve never aspired to be a leader. I have only focused on doing things that I felt were important.

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.

I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.