Quotes

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

We will bury you, and you capitalists will sell us the shovels.

If the people believe there's an imaginary river out there, you don't tell them there's no river. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river.

[on the Cuban Missile Crisis] We ended up getting exactly what we'd wanted all along, security for Fidel Castro's regime and American missiles removed from Turkey and Italy. Until today the U.S. has complied with her promise not to interfere with Castro and not to allow anyone else to interfere with Castro. After Kennedy's death, his successor Lyndon Johnson assured us that he would keep the promise not to invade Cuba.

If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me.