Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river. Nikita Khrushchev More Quotes by Nikita Khrushchev More Quotes From Nikita Khrushchev 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. Nikita Khrushchev medicinemilitarycountry Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! Nikita Khrushchev cuban-missile-crisiscall-of-dutysides 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. Nikita Khrushchev presidentrunningcountry The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair. Nikita Khrushchev losescarehair Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful. Nikita Khrushchev san-franciscocitiesbeautiful 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 waramericayears Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Khrushchev supportgivingmen 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. Nikita Khrushchev donemenwar Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. Nikita Khrushchev bombswar If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. Nikita Khrushchev packs-of-wolvessurvivalifs We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence. Nikita Khrushchev cuttingwarmean 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 politicstodaypeople The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly. Nikita Khrushchev learn-to-flyshrimpusa 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 barnshorsewisdom They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. Nikita Khrushchev teachingwaitingbelieve When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. Nikita Khrushchev switzerlandsocialistworld Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there. Nikita Khrushchev flewspace If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev coldsideswar If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you. Nikita Khrushchev cold-warhedgehogscouple Once you pledge, don't hedge. Nikita Khrushchev pledgefriendship
