Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1398
AUTHOR:
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (18941971)
QUOTATION:
[Politicians] are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
ATTRIBUTION:
NIKITA S. KHRUSHCHEV, impromptu remark made during a visit to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, August 21, 1963, as reported by the New York Herald Tribune, August 22, 1963, p. 16.