Top 31 Quotes About Deng Xiaoping
#1. Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
Li Peng
#2. He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" - Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
Lee Kuan Yew
#3. Since China embraced Deng Xiaoping's reforms on 22 December 1978, China has experimented with different exchange-rate regimes. Until 1994, the yuan was in an ever-depreciating phase against the U.S. dollar.
Steve Hanke
#4. As Deng Xiaoping once said, "I don't care if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." The Stoics had their own reminder: "Don't go expecting Plato's Republic." Because
Ryan Holiday
#5. [There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds - all 'Chinese' - in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].
Mark Elvin
#6. Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.
Michael Specter
#7. He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
Henry A. Kissinger
#8. Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.
Evan Osnos
#9. Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping
#11. It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
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#12. By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.
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#14. We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.
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#15. There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.
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#17. Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
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#20. Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.
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#21. If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.
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#23. The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
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#24. Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.
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#25. Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.
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#26. No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
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#27. A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
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#28. Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
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#29. When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
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#30. I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.
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