Mikhail Gorbachev

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an ‘evil empire.’

My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

I couldn’t wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.

In the midst of all the exactions of government … It is this effort, protected by law and allowed by liberty to exert itself in the manner that is most advantageous, which has maintained the progress.

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

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

Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!

The CIA is mainly a branch of the executive to carry out secret and usually illegal activities that the executive branch wants. It wants them to be kept secret because it knows that the public won’t accept them. So it’s highly undemocratic even domestically.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Our soldiers are there (in Syria) in order to secure Russia’s interests in this critically important part of the world, which is so near to us. And they will stay there, for as long as it is in Russia’s interest for them to do so.

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It’s a very destructive ideology.