Nikita Khrushchev — "I swear to you, we will never drop the first atomic bomb."

"The main thing is to keep the peace. But if someone attacks us, we will respond with all our might."

"The United States is our enemy. But the American people are not our enemy. They are our friends. They are good people. They are good workers. They are good farmers. They are good scientists. They are …"

"We are going to build communism. We are going to build a society in which there will be no exploitation of man by man, no oppression of man by man, no class distinctions, no national oppression, no ra…"

"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can aid their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism until suddenly they awake to find they have communism."

"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."