If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Nikita Khrushchev

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
Nikita Khrushchev

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Nikita Khrushchev

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
Nikita Khrushchev

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Nikita Khrushchev