Famous Quotes & Sayings

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

Wall Street is sliding and Mexico is taking it on the chin as usual.

Azzedine Alaia

I've been wearing Chinese clothes since I was 14. I can't wear a suit. I'm small, and when I put on a suit, it's not possible.

We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.

Bindi Irwin

My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.

With the Chinese there are no strings attached. They don't talk to you about democracy or reform. They give money, the Saudis give oil and there are no hidden agendas. The Saudis find those kinds of relationships more appealing.

With the China market on holiday, Hong Kong is tracking trends in the Japanese market.

We will have to see what the Chinese have heard most recently from the DPRK side. Perhaps they have very fresh news we have to find out.

We welcome foreign oil investments, no matter they are from Chinese companies, European companies or US companies.

We are expanding to eight million tons next year from six million this year to meet demand, which just keeps getting stronger and stronger as China manufactures more.

Richard Branson

We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in.

Eddie Huang

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.

Edward Snowden

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Grace Lin

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.

Gene Luen Yang

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

Bianca Lawson

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

Alan Greenspan

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

Andrea Hirata

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

This will have a big impact on Chinese banks.

There is rapid development going on, ... we would like the Chinese to move even faster.

There is only one China in the world and the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government of the whole of China.

Byron Dorgan

This relates to a massive number of American jobs and American enterprise being shipped overseas in circumstances of trade that are fundamentally unfair because that is the way China wants it.

This reflects the importance of the upcoming vote on China trade,