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Basically no, I mean I think that it`s very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what`s behind it, and what it really means.

- Lester Bangs

It`s much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

- Lester Bangs

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: `It`s always darkest before it`s totally black.`.

- John McCain

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

- Steve Forbes

After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards, I am quite confident that also the present leadership is convinced of this necessity,

- Helmut Schmidt