Statesman Quotes

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.