Revolutions are not made for export.

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.

This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.

However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

Scott Walker has provided some really excellent leadership in Wisconsin.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.