"I have been a victim of lies and slander all my life."

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America?"

"I am not a dictator. I am a servant of the people."

"I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to …"

"I find it amusing that the United States considers itself the defender of democracy when it has supported so many dictatorships."