If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.
Seek truth from facts.
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.
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
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.
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
The minority yields to the majority!
There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.
Cross the river by feeling for stones.
Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we’re doing.
Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
Let some people get rich first.
Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?
Do not debate! is one of my inventions.
Reform is Chinas second revolution.
We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn’t enough. We need to raise the quality.
Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it’s a good cat.
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
When you open a window, both flies and air come in.
We no longer know what socialism is, or how to get there, and yet it remains the goal.