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

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.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.