China Quotes - Page 31

• Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Agriculture, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.292, Xist Publishing

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• China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

  James Dyson

  Partners, Trading, Invaluable

  "Sir James Dyson: China Stalls IP Reform at Its Own Peril" by James Dyson, www.wired.com. January 5, 2012.

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• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

  Umberto Eco

  War, Defects

  "Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

  Jim Elliot

  Wool, Ninety, Five

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• Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Thinking, Russia

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

  David Frum

  Democracy, Balance, India

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• I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Europe, Growth, Fascination

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• There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Country, Home, Mean

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• China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Japan, Answers, Problem

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• As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Oil, Years

  Al Gore's speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2008.

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• If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

  Al Gore

  Sky, Oil, Discovery

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Government, Hands, President

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• The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

  William Hague

  Latin, America, Economy

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• Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

  John Hench

  Children, Wall, Talking

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• Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Past, Japan, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  Xi Jinping

  Doe, Poverty, Firsts

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• China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

  Quincy Jones

  People, Records, Billions

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• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Educational, Creating, Focus

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• China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Desire, Asia, Imperialism

  "The voice of China; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & co. ltd, 1944.

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• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Civilization, Long

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

  Dalai Lama

  Past, Government, Laughing

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• China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

  Dalai Lama

  Liberty, Democracy, World

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• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  Dalai Lama

  Want, Finals, Rebirth

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• Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

  Nick Lampson

  Democracy, Taiwan, World

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• Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

  Nick Lampson

  Fall, Allies, Taiwan

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