"It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."
— Deng Xiaoping

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in Hung Li China's Political Situation and the Power Struggle in Peking (1977), p. 107; according to Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1993), p. 315, this quote is from a speech at the Communist Youth League conference in July 1962.