Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes – history needs a push.

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

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

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

Sometimes it’s important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

We won the Electoral College by a lot: 306 to 223, I believe. And that was a well-fought — that was a well-fought battle. We did a great job.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.

It’s important to remember that the constitutional system was not designed in the first place to defend the rights of people. Rather, the rights of people had to be balanced, as Madison put it, against what he called ‘the rights of property.’

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

I believe the measure of a man isn’t just the road he’s traveled; it’s the choices he’s made along the way.

Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Or stay in Chechnya and wait to be attacked? What should we do? I have said what we must do. We must go through the mountain caves and scatter and destroy all those who are armed. Perhaps after the presidential elections, we should introduce direct presidential rule there for a couple of years. We must rebuild the economy and the social services, show the people that normal life is possible. We must pull the young generation out of the environment of violence in which it is living. We must put a program of education in place . . . We must work. We must not abandon Chechnya as we did before. In fact, we did a criminal thing back then, when we abandoned the Chechen people and undermined Russia. Now we must work hard, and then transfer to full fledged political procedures, allowing them and us to decide how we can coexist. It is unavoidable fact: We must live together. We have no plans to deport Chechens, as Stalin once solved the problem. And Russia has no other choice. Nobody can impose a solution on us by force but we are prepared to take maximum consideration of Chechen

KGB, collapsed. Of course it was incredibly difficult to go through this. After all, most of my life had been devoted to work in the agencies. But I had made my choice.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

The general threat has always been independence. The US and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism.