Joseph Stalin

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

I believe that the presidential term should be limited.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me.

My own view is that the CIA is very much under the control of executive power….It often looks as though it’s undertaking initiatives on its own, but that’s because the executive wants to preserve deniability.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

But free capital mobility is a high priority for the business world: it increases profit and also provides a powerful weapon to undermine labor organizing by threat of job transfer-technically illegal, but highly effective…

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That’s when it will change.

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

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

With regards to the infrastructure, these 11 stadiums. Of course, we spent a lot of money on this and it is imperative that all of this infrastructure, I completely agree, it must work and above all work toward the development of sport on a large scale.