Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think it's great to see China here for the first time. They are not noted as a tennis nation but the girls have made everyone sit up and take notice.

It is a clear signal China will revive the project as telecom giants have joined the industry.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I think the implications for the rise of China are huge in terms of the political landscape, economic balance, de-velopment thinking, and the environment.

It is going to put a lot of pressure on the US to get China to move further on yuan flexibility and to the extent that they don't, that's going to raise protectionist rhetoric in Congress.

Margaret Beckett

It is clear that for China and India the priority is (economic) development.

Henderson Land's strong gains were due mainly to speculation that it might privatize unit Hong Kong & China Gas and launch a real estate investment trust.

Hu Jintao

Hence, modernization in China remains a long and uphill journey that will entail many years of hard work,

Hugo Chavez

We can do whatever we want with the planes. Maybe we'll send 10 to Cuba, or maybe to China so that they can see the technology. I say with whatever country that can use them,

Richard Armitage

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension.

Billy Graham

The people of the United States want peace. The people of China want peace. The people of the Soviet Union want peace. Why can't we have peace?

Jim DeMint

We're opening up their market. I worked hard to put China into the WTO rule-based system.

O. Henry

We think China is a growing regional power and we want to partner with them to manage their gradual rise.

We are fully confident about the prospect of trade and economic cooperation between China and South Africa,

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

There is a philosophical feeling that abolishing the leap second results in greater decoupling of the time scale from rotation of the Earth, and that this is not a good thing. But we put up with daylight-savings time in the United States, and China has one time zone for the entire country. My own feeling is that we all live with departures.

Michael Phelps

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

Human nature is the same everywhere in the world, ... The thought that there are lots of people with time on their hands to explore what the 20 million Internet users in China are doing is totally impractical.

I think that China remains committed to greater flexibility in their currency and opening of their financial markets, ... It's an irreversible course and we think they're now in a position to move even faster.

I think a course like Marine City (at East China Township Park) destroys runners' egos, and our course soothes them,

I think it's very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-time adjustment.

I think it's unfair to say that Chinese companies are squeezing out American companies. China has so many solar companies that are failing, too.

He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose

He is a tremendous competitor, a tremendous team player. The most depressing thing about China was finding out how good Jared Jordan was.

Dick Cheney

From the time standpoint, this is a matter that needs to be resolved as soon as possible, ... There is a risk to the long-term relationship with China for each day that it goes unresolved. It is not in our interest, nor is it in the long-term interest of China, to have that happen.

Giving permanent normal trade relations to the government of China will destroy an important lever that we now have and we have had to influence Chinese behavior, ... We are tossing it aside.

Clive James

If we look at the investment in China in biotech crops, it is very significant.

If we are seeing China back to growth, that is another stress factor back in the oil market.

If that's the economic model, China is in trouble.

If some cities in southern China could set up ice rinks or indoor ski resorts and involve more people, the reserve force of the country's winter sportsmen will become larger.

I wish to emphasize that China is a peace-loving nation.

I would definitely see us selling uranium to China before we'd count on selling it to India.

If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, - how rare its beauty!

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.