Top 100 Khrushchev's Quotes
#1. Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.
Elie Abel
#2. In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
Noam Chomsky
#3. word of orchestration, the head of the table was left to Bulganin, Khrushchev, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Molotov, and Voroshilov - the six most eminent members of the Party - with the two center seats reserved
Amor Towles
#4. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
#5. [Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.
Mao Zedong
#7. Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
Nikita Khrushchev
#8. After asking Humphrey to name his native city, Khrushchev bounced to his feet and drew a bold blue circle around Minneapolis on a map of the United States hanging on his wall - "so that I don't forget to order them to spare the city when the rockets fly.
Frederick Kempe
#9. Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
#11. Instead, so long as Kennedy lived and Khrushchev stayed in power, there was steady movement toward the relaxation of tension - the American University speech, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the "hotline" between the White House and the Kremlin.
Robert F. Kennedy
#12. Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's democratic republic and Nikita Khrushchev becomes Barack Obama.
Ann Coulter
#13. America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.
Nikita Khrushchev
#14. I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!
Nikita Khrushchev
#15. We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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!
Nikita Khrushchev
#18. Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
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#19. The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution.
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#21. When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.
James Cameron
#22. But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
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#25. The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.
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#26. If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again.
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#27. You stuck listening devices all over the dacha
even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.
Nikita Khrushchev
#28. Their bonding over birds went way beyond the way John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev bonded over Pushinka, a little dog that the Soviet leader sent to the White House.
Frans De Waal
#29. Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.
Jimmy Carter
#30. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
#31. hear him laughing. Perhaps this was the moment to mention Vasili Yenkov. He opened his desk drawer and took out Yenkov's KGB file. He picked up a folder of documents for Khrushchev to sign, then he hesitated. He was
Ken Follett
#32. We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans wait for Khrushchev to bury them, we have taught them to submit to our every demand.
Harold Wallace Rosenthal
#33. They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev
#35. Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.
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#36. Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
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#37. To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.
Leonard Mlodinow
#38. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
#39. Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
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#40. I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
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#41. There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was - as Khrushchev said of Nixon - 'like sending a goat to tend the cabbage'.
Hunter S. Thompson
#42. The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
Bob Hope
#43. My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.
Nikita Khrushchev
#44. President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.
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#45. In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.
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#46. They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.
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#47. Nearly every night there were screenings in the private projection rooms in the Kremlin or the various dachas. Khrushchev says that Stalin was particularly keen on Westerns: 'He used to curse them and give them proper ideological evaluation, but then immediately order new ones.
Martin Amis
#48. Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy
#49. Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.
Bob Hope
#50. President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
Colin Powell
#51. No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.
Nikita Khrushchev
#52. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
#54. I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.
John Lennon
#55. Whether you like it or not. history is on our side. We will bury you!
Nikita Khrushchev
#56. When I was 5-years-old, I knew who Khrushchev was.
Bill Maher
#57. Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.
Nikita Khrushchev
#59. 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.
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#60. 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?'
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#62. You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.
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#65. When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
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#66. Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
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#68. The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag ... The American people will hoist it themselves.
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#70. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
#71. What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev
#72. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
#73. "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
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#75. Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.
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#76. Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
Nikita Khrushchev
#77. If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
#78. Once the Cuban missile sites were operational, Khrushchev planned to announce their existence during a speech at the United Nations. And then he would offer to remove them - if NATO agreed to leave West Berlin. Or
Eric Schlosser
#79. The construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980
Nikita Khrushchev
#80. If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Nikita Khrushchev
#81. 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.
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#83. 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
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#85. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
#86. Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination?
William F. Buckley Jr.
#87. When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
Nikita Khrushchev
#88. One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party
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#90. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
Nikita Khrushchev
#91. This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.
Enver Hoxha
#92. For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.
Tim Buck
#94. Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.
Georgy Zhukov
#95. No one is born a Communist ... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.
Nikita Khrushchev
#96. Cecilia sipped her tea and imagined herself going back through time and putting that Khrushchev in his place.
Liane Moriarty
#97. If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."
Nikita Khrushchev
#98. Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.
Nikita Khrushchev
#99. Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
Nikita Khrushchev
#100. 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.
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