The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It’s simply a question of taste.

Your wit makes others witty.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

In a fight you don’t stop to choose your cudgels.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

I’ll step on your corns any time I want.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than...

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Revolutions are not made for export.

Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

I once said, “We will bury you,” and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

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

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

You had better have one King than five hundred.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can’t be avoided.

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

Such dangers as breach of strategic stability, transnational crime and the spread of nuclear weapons are at this time topical for all European states.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Never in the way, and never out of the way.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

We are grateful to those who at difficult times showed solidarity with us, with what the people of Russia are going through, and still are doing so.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international...

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!