Vladimir Lenin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

The goal of Socialism is Communism.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?

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.

Michelle’s not somebody who wants to be deeply involved in policy development. She’s my closest friend and my most important adviser. But I don’t anticipate her sitting around the table trying to figure out tax policy. She’ll probably choose a project that she cares about. But her number-one priority is going to be these kids, and making sure that their transition is one in which the wonderful normalcy that they have is maintained.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

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

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

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

After all the proper subjects of taxation have been exhausted, if the exigencies of the state still continue to require new taxes, they must be imposed upon improper ones.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, with the ending of the Warsaw Pact mutual defence strategy, was the obvious time for Nato to have been disbanded.

From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe’s division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This has led to mutual misunderstandings and assignments of guilt. They are the cause of all crises ever since.

I don’t believe in playing games. It’s not something I would do.