Joseph Stalin

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

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

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?

While capital is now highly mobile, labor is increasingly immobile – and that has immediate consequences. It means that it is easy to shift production to low-wage, high-repression areas of the world with low environmental standards.

I think I could have stopped it because I have very tough illegal immigration policies, and people aren’t coming into this country unless they’re vetted and vetted properly.

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Every day, you have the power to choose our better history – by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what you know is right.

So, sit down strikes in the 1930’s, organization of women’s consciousness-raising groups in the ’60’s and ’70’s, anti-war activism. I mean, all of these things work. They have to be done of course. They don’t happen by themselves.

You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.

The individualist…recognizes the limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently advocates freedom.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

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

I’m sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

A free press is essential to our democracy, but much of our press isn’t very free at all.

The U.S. government played a significant role [in the 1965 Indonesian genocide] by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed them, former U.S. diplomats say…