Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Anastas Mikoyan
14 quotes
“Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" (1960) by the United States Congress, p. 157
“If Soviet Union were to fire over this zone with nuclear weapons directed at France, or if, conversely, the Americans or the French were to fire over this territory with nuclear weapons towards Russia, the resulting radioactive clouds would be driven into this territory by the west winds from the one side, and the east winds from the other, and the Soviet Union could certainly not request the winds to keep to a specific path.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement to Konrad Adenauer (April 1958), as quoted in "Konrad Adenauer" (1995) by Hans-Peter Schwarz, p. 308
“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of January 1959, as quoted in "The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967" (1984), p. 66
“Stalin's methods did not help.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "One Man Alone: Richard Nixon" (1969) by Ralph de Toledano, p. 243
“The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The World Almanac and Book of Facts" (1969), p. 159
“We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Western Europe" (1978) by George Ginsburgs and Alvin Z. Rubinstein, p. 105
“Ordinary people abroad take a better attitude toward men who come as guests with their wives. And if they are accompanied by other members of their family, that disposes people even more favorably toward them. Therefore, I would propose that Khrushchev take Nina Petrovna with him and also include in the delegation other members of his family. This will be well received by ordinary Americans, and that would be better for us.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Vol. 3 : Statesman" (2007), by Nikita Khrushchev, p. 95
“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" (1986) by Michael R. Beschloss, p. 42
“While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement about Grigory Zinoviev, as quoted in "The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" (2001) by Michael Kort, p. 172
“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are accused of all sorts of terrible things, of us wanting to undermine your market, of dumping and so forth. There was no such talk before, but when you had your recession, there were people who wanted to put the whole blame on the Russians. All these fables of us being such terrible devils are not well founded. We want to trade in earnest and well.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? … It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot, after all, ignore the fact that the cold war is being fostered from the U.S. No one will deny that American bases around our country are not being reduced; in fact they are being strengthened. All of this is bound to cause suspicion, and it is bound to cause the Soviet leaders to be cautious and vigilant.”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are no U.S. flyers in our country. The bodies were handed over to the Americans. We have no other bodies of flyers or living flyers in the Soviet Union. If we had, why should we try to hide them?”
Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source