Nicolae Ceausescu Quotes

You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is communist, but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

If I were President I would veto arms sales to countries we damn well know our going to shoot our ass the minute our backs are turned.

The French don't care where they send arms as long as they get some money.

The conflict between communism and freedom is the problem of our time. It overshadows all other problems.

I consider the Birch Society futile, because they are not for capitalism but merely against communism ... I gather they believe that the disastrous state of today's world is caused by a communist conspiracy. This is childishly naive and superficial. No country can be destroyed by a mere conspiracy, it can be destroyed only by ideas.

At the present moment in world history, nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

[Queen] Elizabeth stripped the metal from deconsecrated Catholic churches and melted their bells to make munitions that were then shipped out to Turkey, proving that shady Western arms sales go back much further than the Iran-contra affair.

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism.... We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.

China must voluntarily cut back on exports to America otherwise American politics will become unmanageable.

The United States is the preeminent arms pusher worldwide.

I don't think we should be in the business of proliferating arms sales just to protect our industrial base.

Isolationism has been a calamity.

Our nation has moved from the cold war to the trade war.

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.