Quotes from Nikita Khrushchev

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

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

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

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.

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

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

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

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

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them.

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

Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept Communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won't have to fight you; We'll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.