Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Frank Warren

He's got fantastic hand speed and a fantastic jab. Joe showed what a true warrior he is. He has got a great heart and a great chin and I can't tell you what a fantastic performance that was.

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.

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

We took it on the chin a lot last year. From what I'm seeing, we're showing a lot more poise.

O. Henry

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

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

He was throwing lazy jabs at me with his chin up. I stepped in with my jab and fired a right hook, then a straight left and it landed on the button.

Having Chinese leaders come to Yale is a good way (to create) more understanding between the two societies.

Robin Williams

The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.

Zhou Xun

Being an actress in China, Im actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Zhang Yimou

I must stick with Chinese language films.

Zhuangzi

The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible.

Yo-Yo Ma

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

Winston Churchill

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Eric Schmidt

Our No 1 goal here by far is to serve Chinese users, who want useful information on the Internet.

In the minds of the Chinese people, this is unacceptable. That the United States, after doing this, still refuses to acknowledge responsibility and refuses to pay for the damages.

If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

If your dreams are small enough to stay in the country, you'll still have to learn Chinese and creole.

If you look at what most other money going into China is earning, it is not that inefficient. If you don't invest in U.S. bonds, what do you invest in?

In the heated discussion of the US-China relations within the United States in the first half of this year, US President Bush, State Secretary Rice and other high-ranking officials showed their sincerity and goodwill to respond to the Chinese side as they take the overall situation of the bilateral ties into consideration.

In the future, China will provide more international public goods in many areas.

In the 1980s, Chinese companies tried to get out of the traditional, centrally planned economy and become market players. In the 1990s, many Chinese companies tried to restructure their company structure, to have ownership diversification, to go public domestically or internationally, and then to learn to set up new corporate governance. And after that, I think Chinese companies are looking more and more to the global competition.

Phil Crane

In telecommunications, China represents the largest potential market in the world,

Clearly the Chinese market is going to overwhelm everything else in Asia. In the last five, six, seven years, we have concentrated entirely on China.

Civet of hare in the south China seas! 'Gosh, Gertrude, let's go have some civet of hare, it's really cold out there.

Higher interest equals higher risks - the Chinese will need time to get used to the concept.

Mark White

Chinese software developers should be able to work on the Linux kernel project, as a peer, with somebody in Finland, the U.S. or Australia, but they are not doing that,