Joseph Stalin

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us…

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Well, I do think there’s blame — yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at — you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either.

I can only go one way. I’ve not got a reverse gear.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

In Nixon’s administration, you get the consumer safety legislation (CPSC), safety and health regulations in the workplace (OSHA) and the EPA – the Environmental Protection Agency. Business didn’t like it, of course – they didn’t like the higher taxes, didn’t like the regulation.

Thieves must sit in prison.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

The ferocity of the assault against labor by the U.S. business class is illustrated by Washington’s failure, for 60 years, to ratify the core principle of international labor law, which guarantees freedom of association.

The despotism of faction is not less to be dreaded than the despotism of an individual.

It was a respectful ceremony and I stood in respect throughout it.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

You cannot take your freedoms for granted. Just like generations who have come before you, you have to do your part to preserve and protect those freedoms… you need to be preparing yourself to add your voice to our national conversation.

[Marx’s] picture was, as I understand it, that when working people liberate themselves, and can make their own decisions, they will determine what kind of society it will be. He is not going to dictate it to them. I think that’s a pretty wise stand frankly.