Quotes from Nikita Khrushchev

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

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

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say, 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

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

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

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

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

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

I am not afraid of the devil, and you are just a man.

If the people believe there's an imaginary river out there, you don't tell them there's no river there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river

You stuck listening devices all over the dacha--even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

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

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.

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

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired