Nikita Khrushchev Quotes - Page 3

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Bird, Political, Advice

  "The last word on compromise" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Hydrogen Bomb, Meat, Bombs

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Hard Work, People, Incentives

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Peace, History, Bombers

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Essentials, Purpose, Should

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• 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

  Mean, Night, Relaxation

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• 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?'

  Nikita Khrushchev

  People, Political, Promise

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• No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Humble, Men, Office

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• They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Tea Leaves, Attention, Littles

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• 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

  America, United States, Rooftops

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• 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

  Dog, Teeth, Sticks

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• I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Change, People, Want

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• One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Party, Principles, Literature

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• Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Cities, Rockets, Pads

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• 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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, War, Hydrogen Bomb

  Address to the United Nations, New York City, on September 18, 1959. The New York Times, p. 8, September 19, 1959.

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• I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  New York, Sick, Stones

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• Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Communism, Should, Marxist

  "Khrushchev's secret speech: a crack in the monolith" by Mike Haynes, socialistworker.co.uk. February 18, 2006.

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• I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Girl, Singers, Jazz

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• 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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Dirty, Thinking, People

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• I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  History, Diplomatic, Knows

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• The thought sometimes - the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came - if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just - it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  United States, Might, Knees

  "Khrushchev Visits the United States". "1959 Year In Review", www.upi.com. September 15, 1959.

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Wish, Doe, Economics

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• Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Order, President, Toady

  Remark in the United Nations General Assembly, October 12, 1960.

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• 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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Tired, Twenties, Twelve

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• In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Nuclear, Weapons, Unleashed

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