Jiang Zemin Quotes


The private sector can only be a supplement to the state and collective sectors, and it can never predominate.


Citations

Jiang Zemin, Communist Party Leader and President of China, Speech, July 1991

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The first part of this quotation has defined the attitude of most Americans towards private enterprise and government since then. The second part of the quotation—the undesirability of public ownership of railroads has given way to the modern problem that no passenger railroad can be operated profitably by anyone—private or public. So Roosevelt’s “far-reaching disaster” was finally complete with the Federal Government taking over responsibility for Amtrack.


This rigid view left no room for regulation which is what almost every modern industrial democracy has chosen. To some of his extremist followers, any government regulation of business or the economy whatsoever, regardless of how little, means that the nation has embraced socialism. It is in this sense that many extreme right wingers viewed Presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama as socialists while they saw themselves as opponents of socialism.


Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin
  • Born: August 17, 1926
  • Nationality: Chinese
  • Profession: Electrical Engineer

Jiang Zemin is a Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1989 to 2002, as Chair of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2004, and as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003. Jiang has been described as the "core of the third generation" of Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders since 1989.