Vladimir Lenin

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

Sometimes – history needs a push.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The revolution does not need historians.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Politics is like boxing – you try to knock out your opponents.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’

Usually, by and large, the U.S. foreign policy, like other major states, is driven by the dominant domestic forces. That’s kind of natural. And the dominant domestic forces are, of course, the corporate sector. That’s not in question.

Can you imagine what the outcry would be if Snoop Dogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!

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.

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.

Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you – what else do you have if you don’t have hope?

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

There was no collusion. Everybody knows there was no collusion.

The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.