Vladimir Lenin

You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.

What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel!

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They’ve all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don’t know what they’re talking about.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they’ll work out their own salvation.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don’t want to learn it themselves.

Donald Trump and I have, firstly, met more than once at various international venues and secondly, we regularly talk over the phone.

Nationalizing the whole oil sector would be a difficult and highly dangerous process, which could have negative consequences not only for the sector but for the whole economy.

I believe that President Trump of the United States does not need any advice because one has to possess certain talent and go through this trial to be elected, even without having the experience of such big administrative work. He has done this.

I’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

What we call intellectuals, they didn’t used to call them that, it’s a modern term. Historically, what you find is overwhelmingly this group is supportive of power. There’s usually a fringe of dissidents who are treated pretty badly.

[on Bill and Hillary Clinton] Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.

When the interests of the privileged and powerful are the guiding commitment of both political factions, people who do not share these interests tend to stay home.

As you know my wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multi-cultural so what I was going to do was go down to the mosque with him and let him talk to people there.