The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist.

The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people’s, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.