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.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
– Nikita Khrushchev
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?
– Nikita Khrushchev
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
– Nikita Khrushchev
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
– Nikita Khrushchev
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
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
– Nikita Khrushchev
I'll step on your corns any time I want.
– Nikita Khrushchev
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
– Nikita Khrushchev
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
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
– Nikita Khrushchev
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
– Nikita Khrushchev
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Life is short. Live it up.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Revolutions are not made for export.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
– Nikita Khrushchev
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
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
– Nikita Khrushchev
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
– Nikita Khrushchev
The survivors would envy the dead.
– Nikita Khrushchev
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.
– Nikita Khrushchev
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
– Nikita Khrushchev
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
– Nikita Khrushchev
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
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
– Nikita Khrushchev
Politicians are the same the world over, they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.