Nikita Khrushchev Quotes - Page 3

Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

The living will envy the dead.

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 were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

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

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

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!

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.

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

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know

I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.

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

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

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

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

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

The thought sometimes - the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came - if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just - it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

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

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