Anastas Mikoyan

"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…"

"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 w…"

"We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war."

"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…"

"If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave."

"One former member of group became an ambassador. True, the country 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 no…"

"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."

"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."