Vladimir Lenin

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the ‘working masses’.

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

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

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

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

If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people’s lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it’s an embarassment to our country.

It appears, our partners thought that this would never affect them, this counterproductive politics of restrictions and sanctions. But now we are seeing that this is happening.

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

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges – challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

No serious analyst believes that the ruling clerics [in Iran] are eager to see their country and possessions vaporized, the immediate consequence of their coming even close to initiating a nuclear war.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.

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.

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today

Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is, the picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It’s all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It’s not like a totalitarian state, where it’s done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.