Vladimir Lenin

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

I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

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

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

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

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…

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.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.

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

I know words. I have the best words.

Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you – what else do you have if you don’t have hope?

[Republicans] have turned to mobilizing sectors of the population that have always been there, but not as an organized coalitional political force: evangelicals, nativists, racists and the victims of the forms of globalization…Every candidate that has emerged from the base — such as [Michele] Bachmann, [Herman] Cain or [Rick] Santorum — has been so extreme that the Republican establishment had to use its ample resources to beat them down. The difference in 2016 is that the establishment failed, much to its chagrin, as we have seen..

The U.S….will continue to defend U.S.-based corporate and financial interests while seeking to maintain a global environment in which they can flourish. That requires, in particular, that the Third World be kept in its service role.

Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

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.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.