Tiananmen square Quote by Lee Kuan Yew

Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“China as the present-day economic superpower is the legacy of Deng Xiaoping.”

— Henry Kissinger

“To look squarely at the suffering of the ordinary people whose misery is recorded in the transcripts makes me feel that I am not…

— Xiaobo Liu

I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts… I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the…

— Samantha Power

I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know…

— Henry A. Kissinger

What we saw in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago was a massacre, a massacre of innocent people that came from Hong Kong but also…

— Morgan Ortagus

“The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that…

— Gordon G. Chang

“When it became clear that Xi Jinping was placing his bet on fortifying the status quo, another Party aristocrat, Hu Dehua, the sixty-three-year-old son…

— Evan Osnos

“Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can understand each…

— Xiaolu Guo

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political…

— Li Peng

“The [Tiananmen] Gate was built during the Ming Dynasty and used by Emperors for making public appearances and proclamations. The Gate, like Tiananmen Square,…

— Douglas Adams

“If there is one leader to whom most Chinese people express gratitude for improvements in their daily lives, it is Deng Xiaoping. Did any…

— Ezra F. Vogel