Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will employ more foreign coaches, technicians, nutritionists and other experts to help Chinese athletes.

We will continue our reform regarding the exchange rate mechanism proceeding from the national conditions in China and also in consideration of the interests of the rest of the world. We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries concerning our perspectives on the question of exchange rates.

This will be a grand occasion because it will create a two-way street with Peking University so that students can study there and learn not only Chinese language, but also China's politics, culture and history, so that when they come back to the United States, they will be able to represent China's point of view much better.

Martin Jacques

The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.

There has been much legitimate talk about the competitive threat posed to the developed world by the soaring growth of industries in China and India. Of course they are a challenge, but they also represent a huge opportunity.

There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is no denying the fact that the government of India is not able to invest in infrastructure in the way that China is.

There is actually some common ground, ... All three of us are facing real threats from Chinese trading policies.

When China had a planned economy our material circumstances were not rich but our society was much more peaceful and stable. We didn't have the polarization between rich and poor we are seeing today.

Mick Jagger

We kind of expected that. We didn't expect to come to China and not be censored.

Charles Schumer

We thought it was the right time to figure out where the Chinese are headed on this issue and other issues, like intellectual property and port security.

Until the last out was made, I was confident we were going to win and so were the kids. I didn't see one kid drop their chin during the game. These kids just kept coming. If this thing had gone 10 or 11 innings, we'd have gotten them.

Amy Tan

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Amy Chua

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Our hope is that our decision will prove to be the right one. We are not happy about it, but that's the requirement under Chinese law.

Over the last few days we've seen the possibility of further breakthroughs and dialogue dissipate. It seems that Chinese and Russian support have clinched a referral.

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

Richard Boucher

Our goal in sponsoring this resolution is to encourage China to take positive, concrete steps to meet its international obligations, to protect human rights, and fundamental freedoms of the Chinese people.

Our goal in life has been to see the world. As a kid you said you wanted to dig to China. Well, I wanted to see what China looked like, so that was one of the first places we went. We raised our children, got them through college, then we climbed the Great Wall, did the whole thing. And we gutted the house.

Over 100 cities in China have more than 1 million people. If even a small percentage of these people are able to purchase home furnishings, it would be really promising.

We've tried for a long time. We've got a great management team in Louisville. But all that manufacturing's going to be in China and Mexico,

We'll also have the Chinese and a team from either Jamaica or the Bahamas. This meet ranks with a lot of meets in Europe. What better place to take a test?

Louis Gerstner

I think the visit is very important...very important for China and very important for the United States,

It is a matter of urgency. It is an outbreak of potential international importance. We're looking for China to share the information as quickly as possible and as much as possible.

I think there's some understanding that if we back off for now, the Chinese will make some movement on currency.

Just a few years ago, China definitely wasn't ready and didn't have consumers at the level of Vogue. Two years from now, though, would have definitely been too late. That's the way China is, moving incredibly fast.

Lance Armstrong

Jan's not finished. He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken one on the chin today but he always comes back and is strong in the last week.

Lance Armstrong

Jan's not finished, ... He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken one on the chin today but he always comes back and is strong in the last week.

Last week in all media classes, we read Chinese folk tales and I did a presentation on China.

Katie Leung

I think everybody here is proud of me. I'm Chinese and I think my trip here will be good for the film.

is all but a China company at this point, and he's turned his back on Michigan.

Supply-chain management with China as the focus has remade the face of world trade.

Such frequent high-level contacts between China and the United States are really rare in the history of their relations,

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,