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• "Vietnam is a hooligan, we must teach them a lesson."
  • (On December 1978, in a visit to several Southeast Asia countries, only a few months before The third Indochina War, he said this quote live on the China television network)

• 小朋友不聴話,該打打屁股了. Translation: It's time to smack the bottom of unruly little children. (
  • While talking to president Jimmy Carter during his brief visit to the United States, thereby informing the USA that China was ready to go to war with Vietnam.

• “Well, that’s the way it’s presented in our propaganda. We needed that to express the fighting spirit of our forces. In fact, it was a very easy military operation.(On The Crossing of Luding Bridge, The Red Army Long March.)
  • former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski mentioned a conversation that he once had with Deng Xiaoping.

• We should do more, and talk less.
  • propaganda poster^{[dead link]}

• Development is the overriding principle.
  • (On January 29, 1992 while visiting the Zhujiang Refrigerator Company)

Deng Xiaoping meeting with Jimmy Carter.

• Crossing the river by groping for stones.
• Some must get rich first!
• No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
  • 1962, From a speech in a meeting of the Secretariat, actually a Sichuan proverb.

• Socialism is not the same as shared poverty.

• To China's problems, the overwhelming priority is stability. Without a stable environment, nothing can be achieved, and what has been achieved will be lost... Democracy is our goal, but the country must remain stable.
  • Meeting with George H. W. Bush

• 24-Characters: keep cool-headed to observe, be composed to make reactions, stand firmly, hide our capabilities and bide our time, never try to take the lead, and be able to accomplish something.”
  • http://sun-bin.blogspot.com/2005/07/tao-guang-yang-hui-as-strategy-is.html