Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.

Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Based on our preliminary calculations, we may in the next six years spend 17 trillion roubles (Putin said billion, but meant trillion), but to achieve the goals that we have discussed, we will need an additional 8 trillion roubles. And it is clear where we are going to find them.

The American Petroleum Institute, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and the other business lobbies, has intensified its efforts to persuade the public to dismiss concerns about anthropogenic global warming – with considerable success, as polls indicate.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‘Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?

The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy, it’s the country’s legacy.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

We live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That’s why we have government.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

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

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people, and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don’t eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.