Communist Quotes - Page 34

• Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].

  Xi Jinping

  Party, People, Republic

  "Opinion: Corruption as China's top priority" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, edition.cnn.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.

  Xi Jinping

  Party, Leader, Promise

  "China's Xi to tread peaceful, patient path on Taiwan", www.reuters.com. February 25, 2013.

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• It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United States was going to uh carry out its declared intent to uh, do its best to prevent uh, a Communist overrun of South Vietnam, uh, there would be at least hard choices to make, and there might be a choice for uh, stronger action.

  McGeorge Bundy

  Choices, Stronger, United States

  "Vietnam in the Kennedy Administration". "LBJ Goes to War (1964 - 1965)" with Lyndon Johnson, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org.

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• We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take advantage of the American presence in South Vietnam to make the propaganda that they were the only one who fought for the independence of the country and against the, only foreigners, first the French and after that the Americans.

  Bui Diem

  Country, Independence, Trying

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• I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Criticism, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Communist Leaders, Pope

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put it that way: The pope is simply saying...? Has he ever said that Mao Tse-tung, that Fidel Castro, that Raul Castro, any other communist is not a Christian? Why Donald Trump? 'Cause Trump wants to build a wall?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Country, Wall

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Existence, Competitors

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grandchildren, Evil, Unions

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• When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside down on a cross, and I so wanted to be a good person, and I had these rosary beads that I would sleep with every night, and I just wanted the blessed Virgin to be on my side.

  Susan Sarandon

  Blessed, Sleep, Night

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Creativity, Decision

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Mind, Belief, Communist Manifesto

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices of capitalism.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Party, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.

  Indira Gandhi

  Party, Moving, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• In the face of such a threat, they had no other choice but to throw themselves to the far left. But now that the people are conscious of our efforts, now that they see us resolving problems, the communists are losing strength.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, Effort, Choices

  Source: sangam.org

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• You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Errors, Democracy

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.

  Michael Savage

  Chinese, Speech, Study

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• Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

  Richard Dawkins

  Party, People, Belief

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

  Joseph Stalin

  Order, Creating, People

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• Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Country, Running, Uncles

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Intelligent, Europe, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.

  Bill Ayers

  Vision, Monsters, World

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.

  Robin Leach

  Block, Fall, Hard Work

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end... you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.

  Arundhati Roy

  Ideas, Russia, Tears

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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