"The party is the mind, honor, and conscience of our epoch."

"We need to go to the countryside, to the villages, to the peasants. We must explain to them that the Soviet government is the only government that frees them from exploitation."

"It is necessary to use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion and concealment of truth."

"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."

"It is not enough to be a revolutionary and an adherent of socialism or a Communist in general. You must be able at each particular moment to find the particular link in the chain which you must grasp …"