Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Ayittey

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

The E.U.'s proposed plan to impose anti-dumping duty on imported Chinese shoes is unjust and lacks of legitimacy.

Ma Jian

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

A good majority of Chinese leadership today were trained in the Soviet Union in the 1950s,

Henry A. Kissinger

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

George Friedman

The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States is going to come out of this recession fast. The Europeans are going to fragment. The Chinese are going to be cremated. Why could we come out of it? Why has all economic theory been proven wrong? Because we're rich and we could afford it ...

Louis Sachar

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

John Breaux

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

Giorgio Armani

You can see from my retrospective show that many products reflect the Chinese inspiration.

Jeff Smith

You've got to have the right kind of trees. If you're a Chinese kid, you don't know about maple syrup. If you're raised in Georgia, like I was, you don't know about maple syrup.

Edward White

All you need is a name like Yao Ming, a couple of players in the Major Leagues, and you might well have significant Chinese involvement in baseball.

The general feeling here is that the trade deficit does not really come at the U.S. expense. The U.S. makes money at every stage of Chinese production.

The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.

Philip Gourevitch

These interviews were truly like nothing I had read before, ... On the other hand, they reminded me of everything from Studs Terkel to Bertolt Brecht. They offer a funny, weird glimpse of how Chinese society works.

These filings show the Chinese that if you don't make progress, we are going to exercise our rights. We are going to moderate trade.

Zhu Rongji

This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures

William Adams

The combination of a sharp rebound in US equities, a slightly weaker dollar and strong Chinese data seems to have been enough to underpin the metals.

The focus should be placed on how local governments and law enforcement departments implement the law, the development of rural farms run by returned overseas Chinese and their families, and the social security network.

James Comey

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

Emile Hirsch

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.

Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.

We're lightening up on resources shares because we're not convinced that the hype about Chinese demand quite matches the reality.

We actually ponder the depths and resilience of Chinese capacity, for example, when we sit around the table of the FOMC.

Everyone is equal before the law. No matter whether he is American, Chinese or from other countries, as long as he has committed crimes, he has to be punished by the law.

The Boeing deal just made is an important step for Chinese and American companies to introduce new model aircraft, and represents a promising future in bilateral economic and trade cooperation,

Iris Chang

Not only do people go into Chinese restaurants, but people are more likely to work with other Chinese-Americans, more likely to marry them.

After such a slow 2005 for Chinese oil demand an acceleration in growth looks highly likely in 2006 and this will exert further pressure on oil supply and prices.

It's roughly in line with what people expected, and if you discount the Chinese New Year effect, the number would probably not look so high.

Scott Walker

It's sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server than do the members of the United States Congress. And - and that has put our national security at risk.

Does the fact that this corporation operates under Chinese law free it from all ethical considerations? How far will it go to please Beijing?

Eric Schmidt

The No. 1 goal, by far, is to serve the Chinese citizen who wants information.