Joseph Stalin

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

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

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

In the Soviet Union, it’s takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Die, but do not retreat.

It’s Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.

The media may feel obligated to carry extremely dubious stories and mute criticism in order not to offend their sources and disturb a close relationship. It is very difficult to call authorities on whom one depends for daily news liars, even if they tell whoppers.

A truly independent press rejects the role of subordination to power and authority. It casts the orthodoxy to the winds, questions what “right-thinking people will accept without question,” tears aside the veil of tacit censorship…

Once wide coercive powers are given to government agencies…such powers cannot be effectively controlled.

The term ‘dissidents’ is pretty much restricted to critics on the enemy’s side, who we honor and respect. On our side, they’re subjected to one or another form of punishment.

If he gave an assignment, he didn’t really care how it was done or who did it or what problems they had. It just had to get done, and that was that.

Universities are dependent on outside sources of support and those sources of support, such as private wealth, big corporations with grants, and the government,…they are essentially what the universities are in the middle of.

According to what you’re taught in economics courses, our system is based on free markets with entrepreneurial initiative and rational choices by informed consumers. Well, the reality is radically different.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 [Hillary Clinton] emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

Both prisons and inner-city schools target a kind of superfluous population that there’s no point educating because there’s nothing for them to do. Because we’re a civilized people, we put them in prison, rather than sending death squads out to murder them.