China Quotes - Page 38

President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.

Joe Biden

Jobs, President, Ships

"Biden Makes Final Sales Pitch in Ohio, Calls Romney 'Shameless'" by Arlette Saenz, abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2012.

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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

W. Somerset Maugham

Wall, Mountain, Depth

W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “On a Chinese Screen”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

Iyanla Vanzant

Love Is, Fine China, Secret

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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Smedley Butler

Brother, Wall, Boys

"War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

Mary Meeker

Three, Enthusiasm, Internet

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I don`t think this has been fully understood by the United States... If you look at India, China and Russia, they all have strong education heritages. Even if you discount 90 percent of the people there as uneducated farmers, you still end up with about 300 million people who are educated. That`s bigger than the U.S. work force.

Craig R. Barrett

Strong, Thinking, Russia

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The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

Omar N. Bradley

Powerful, War, Political

Testimony before Senate Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees, 15 May 1951

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In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

Barbara Tuchman

Death, Country, Taken

Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Notes from China”, p.3, Random House

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To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Denis Kearney

Tyrants, Despair, World

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[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I think it was wrong.

William J. Clinton

Stupid, Humorous, Kids

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President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States will reduce its carbon emissions substantially over the next 11 years. China will do absolutely nothing but hope that its emissions decline after 2030.

Erick Erickson

Years, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

Erick Erickson

Media, Rallying Cry, Carbon Emissions

Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

Rudyard Kipling

Play, Dawn, Thunder

"Mandalay" st. 1 (1892)

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If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.

Richard M. Nixon

War, Believe, Boys

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Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

Mao Zedong

War, Doe, Neutrality

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Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

School, Math, Technology

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For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

James Fallows

Air, Safety, Water

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I don’t think it’s possible to skip with a frown on your face.... I’d like to see the world’s governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea.

Bindi Irwin

Thinking, Korea, Leader

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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

Leroy Chiao

Russia, Interesting, Chinese

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China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

Li Peng

Country, Strong, Rich Or Poor

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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

Alfred North Whitehead

Adventure, Civilization, Decay

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I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

John Steinbeck

Children, Wall, Reading

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.93, Penguin

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In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Lin Yutang

Insane, Asylums, West

Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

Vinton Cerf

Japan, Energy, Amount

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No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

Paul Tsongas

Spring, War, Rights

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