Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), full name Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.

- to the press, October 1960, in Glen Cove, L T

• If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans, they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day, they will say 'To hell with you.'

- quoted in the New York Times, October 4, 1964

Harold Macmillan