"When my mother left us, [Stalin] was left completely alone. And I think what came next, in the late 30s and after the…"

"The following afternoon we had a conference with the President, and from 4:00 until 7:00 met with all the "Big Three.…"

"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."

"We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us."

"Comrade Stalin showed us how to build socialism in a backward country: it's painful to begin with, but afterwards eve…"

"During that meeting, King told us, when they were talking about what was going to happen to the Germans after the war…"

"Quantity has a quality all its own."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

"Death solves all problems — no man, no problem."

"His history is a series of victories over a series of tremendous difficulties. Since 1917, not a single year of his c…"