Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

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.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Nikita Khrushchev
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
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
Nikita Khrushchev

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

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
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
Nikita Khrushchev

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.