not one word of the 13th Congress Report should be changed.

Reform is China’s second revolution.

By following the concept of “one country, two systems,” you don’t swallow me up nor I you.

To get rich is glorious.

owners of the party.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Most of them have passed their peak time and their sustained presence in the field shows the lack of young players, … Most of them will retire after the National Games and the young players...

It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

The minority yields to the majority!

Keep a low profile and never take the lead [in world affairs].

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big.

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one. If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the...

steel Great Wall that protects the party.

It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

If things continue like this, we could even end up under house arrest, … After thinking long and hard about this, I’ve concluded that we should bring in the People’s Liberation Army and declare martial...

fresh approaches to doing things.

Seek truth from facts.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile, … Never take the lead – but aim to do something big.

Three Tigers and Purdue: Stories of Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan and an American University.

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.

Somebody wants to change the color of the party, … Somebody wants to take away the hammer and sickle from our flag — and replace them with a computer and satellite.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

[Apart from asking cadres of all levels to profess allegiance to] Jiang Theory, … the imperative of combating both left and right.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Let some people get rich first.