Famous Quotes & Sayings

The 2008 Beijing Olympics is a dream come true for every Chinese. I hope I can play as a national member.

Donald Tsang

I was in Beijing not too long ago in December and had a very thorough discussion with the President, the Premier and other senior officials.

We hope the second round of Beijing talks will start as early as possible, to promote the dialogue for a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue.

We can't be optimistic that we can persuade Beijing to change their stance. The future will be difficult.

But at Beijing we will be much closer the the 50-50 were are striving for.

Irina Slutskaya

I had a small mistake doing a layback spin, that's why I think my score was not as high as in Beijing but I'm still very satisfied with my skate.

Here we have a huge country which has never had the games. This could be an event, which encourages an even greater degree of openness. From an Olympic point of view, Beijing has to have the edge.

Hu Jintao

The purpose of holding the commemorative meeting is to reiterate our solemn commitments to the principles of the UN Charter and the implementation of the 2000 Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action,

I couldn't sit in an office in California and tell a Chinese citizen in Beijing not to follow a lawful demand of the Chinese government.

Martin Jacques

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

There is no question that Beijing would want to do more, ... Do they want to do something 'big' just two days before Bush arrives in Beijing?

What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.

Mao Zedong

would elevate the status of Beijing into that of a civilized capital, and make it fit to stage a 'civilized Olympics' in 2008. We certainly do not want to see the farce of the Olympic flag flying over a city in which a corpse is worshiped.

Richard Caborn

We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.

Nicole Mones

They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls.

Liu Wen

My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.

My previous opportunity of taking part in the Summer Games was a special offer from my country. I will try even harder in the coming years and try to earn the berth for representing Bulgaria in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

I think Beijing is probing how party documents have been leaked, and Wu's organization is being investigated as one of the major sources,

Relations between Beijing and London are pretty cool. The Chinese are not happy with the way power is being transferred. Britain doesn't really have any military, and not all that much economic, role to play in China in the future.

Our office in Beijing was informed of this today. It is in a province that hasn't identified human cases before but it is somebody who seems to have a history of exposure to poultry.

But what's more interesting is the U.S.-China deficit, especially with what's going on in Beijing just now. It's going to put a lot of pressure on the U.S. 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, which I think is ultimately dollar-negative.

But it's for sure this is not going to make Beijing make any meaningful concessions under pressure.

Liu Xiang

Holding the Olympics in Beijing will be a major event that will remain in Chinese history, ... It will be an excellent opportunity for China to demonstrate the rapid development it has made. As athletes, we will be called upon to produce good results for our home country.

We look forward to meeting with the world's leading contractors, design firms, developers, financiers and building product manufacturers in Beijing to discuss global issues facing this great industry.

Shashi Tharoor

The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity.

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.

I think for the next seven years Beijing will be on good behavior, ... There is a potential by the year 2008 for the same thing to happen to Beijing that happened to Moscow in the 1980s should the Chinese stir up regional security trouble in the western Pacific, and I primarily mean Taiwan.

The Beijing leaders have gone berserk about the possibility of our capturing more than half the seats.

Sun's urine sample taken after the Beijing International Marathon returned negative results, so she can keep her title for the marathon race.

It's unfortunate that a few colored the rest of the delegation. We will be making some significant adjustments going into Beijing and Vancouver.

The number of missiles has been steadily increased. In another 2 to 3 years, Beijing will deploy another 500 to 600 missiles. So definitely Taiwan is under tremendous threat and pressure,