If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

You don't have to live by someone else's rules. Do what you want. Be free.

With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.

Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.

Satire today has become a flat ‘tyre'.

Stop caring and you will be happy forever.

Germany must continue to champion the world's biggest free single market, and under its leadership, the EU can overcome its internal differences.

But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.