"[C]hess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the inte…"

"[C]hess is not a game for dictators for numerous reasons. One, it's transparent. It’s all information hundred percent…"

"The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison."

"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to…"

""Socialism with a human face"? ... Frankenstein also had a human face."

"I was almost annoyed hearing that Putin plays chess and Obama or other leaders of the free world they play checkers. …"

"It's not common, in our age, for someone to retire while still at the top, but I'm a man who needs a goal, and who wa…"

"Great leaders are formed only by taking on great challenges."

"You can get quite far in a democracy if you can convince a majority that they are victims of a minority, and that onl…"

"[I]t's very important to understand that this is the dictators always operate short-term, and democracies must operat…"