I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration... can very seriously injure the government

People's Fury is above all the furies.

Best wishes for your personal well-being as well as for the prosperous future of the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.