Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Moran

Probably Chevron taught the Chinese a lesson, ... And they will feel that they need to be more involved in the future.

North Korean women, in particular, are in extreme peril in terms of being snared by human traffickers either to be sold into marriage to a Chinese person or to be pulled into the sex trade.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Helmut Schmidt

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

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,

Zhu Rongji

After Hong Kong and Macau returned to the motherland, the sacred mission to resolve the Taiwan issue and completely reunite the motherland has become even more prominent for all the Chinese people,

Xi Jinping

During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

There's every reason to think this will be a successful mission. The Chinese are good at rocketry.

There's an order coming from the Chinese and I think more people are realizing that Boeing has done a nice job of managing its business.

Gary Becker

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

All of us are Chinese and we need to have more understanding of the mainland people, the mainland system.

Rebecca MacKinnon

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

Americans want to see it before it gets to be the dominating Westernized country. You look at Shanghai they want it to be like Paris. There's so much being said about the Chinese culture and the influence it's going to have on the world. It's very much of interest to Americans.

Americans like to look at the Internet as a frontier. Chinese prefer to look at it as a fenced field. Where it is productive, you may roam; where there is danger, you may not.

Robert Fortune

This is one of the plants which the Chinese are fond of dwarfing, and it is, consequently, often seen in that state in their gardens.

George H. W. Bush

The United States must help Taiwan defend itself, ... The Chinese can figure out what that means, but that's going to mean a resolute stand on my part.

This demonstrates the ordinary Chinese person's concern and involvement in economic globalization.

This Chinese New Year...we have had record 'sell out' crowds.

For me it's a great honor ... I think the president of the Chinese Olympic Committee chose me to encourage me and reward me because I have done a lot for my country through my results in sports.

For Chinese refineries, every time they sell a ton of gasoline or diesel, they lose 1,000 RMB. The whole refining industry is hurting.

They are going through a period of self-education about how the system works. We expect the Chinese to continue to move in the right direction.

There will be a Chinese lion dance, some traditional Chinese entertainment, martial arts, karaoke, Chinese music and a meal. We always invite the mayor, council officers, and the governors from the City of Sunderland College.

There were a number of statements today ... acknowledging the move of the Chinese and welcoming the move and urging the Chinese to do what they said they plan on doing, which is to put in place greater flexibility over time,

Derek Lam

There was talk the Chinese government will let its people visit Taiwan soon.

Derek Mitchell

There's a lot of frustration at all levels. There's a sense that the Chinese are not giving on anything.

Viviane Reding

There needs to be a clear agenda, because the uncertainty that is going on over third generation ... is not good for the industry -- neither for the Chinese nor for the Europeans.

Hu Shih

The Renaissance movement of the last two decades differs from all the early movements in being a fully conscious and studied movement.

This is very, very typical of the Chinese space program. They go quite a big step each time. They very rarely repeat missions.

This is a real shame. When a search engine collaborates with the government like this, it makes it much easier for the Chinese government to control what is being said on the Internet.

Jiang Zemin

This is an important symbol of the Chinese government's recovery of sovereignty over Hong Kong. The mission is sacred, the responsibility is great,

This is going to take a lot of teacher training. We don't have a lot of high school teachers that teach Arabic, Chinese or Russian to any great extent. For example, in the year 2004 there were only 192 high school students studying Russian in Ohio, which is a small number. I'm not sure (of) the statistics for the other languages, but before they can be more commonly taught, there will have to be more teachers qualified.

Zheng Jie

This is the first time for a Chinese player to reach the quarter-finals in a big tournament. It's no big surprise. Just a quarter. If you win the tournament it's a big surprise.