Joseph Stalin

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

We will use funds returned from Brussels after Brexit to invest in our public services and jobs of the future, not tax cuts for the richest.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people.

By the autumn of this year, additional measures should be introduced which will stabilize the situation on the market.

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions, all has a single, very simple solution. … Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Marx analysed what was happening in a quite brilliant way, if we are investing in infrastructure then we the public should get the benefit of it.

We are not going to close anything… I also worked in the security services and know it is easiest to ban, and harder to find civilized solutions. Therefore, I’m going to urge all my colleagues to take this route, the route of security and law enforcement agencies using modern methods to combat offences, including terrorism, without restricting freedoms including on the Internet.

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

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

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.

Big institutions, like Goldman Sachs really don’t have to worry much about systemic risk because we don’t have a market system. So therefore they can run cap in hand to the nanny state and say ‘bail me out’ and that’s what happens.