Chinese Government Quotes

• An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

  Confucius

  Philosophical, Beer, Government

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• One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

  Bill Gates

  Government, People, Chinese

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• The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

  Conan O'Brien

  Party, Government, Chinese

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• I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Chinese, Contact

  "Edward Snowden flatly denies Chinese spy claims" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Chinese, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One way in which we can encourage the Chinese government to take more vigorous action to control food safety in their country is by just saying we're not going to buy Chinese foods until they get their system cleaned up. Admittedly it's a difficult system to get under control because an astonishing percentage - maybe 80 percent - of the foods in China are produced in small backyard operations.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Government, Safety

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• The Chinese Government and I myself have always attached great importance to China-U.S. relations. In the new historic era, I look forward to working together with you to continuously strengthen dialogue and exchanges between our two countries.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Government, Two

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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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• The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

  Bill Gates

  Responsibility, Fighting, Government

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• China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Chinese

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.

  James Fallows

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

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• I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.

  Jamie Dimon

  Strong, Government, Chinese

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland!

  Andre Vltchek

  Fighting, Yield, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

  Dalai Lama

  Government, Self, Independence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

  Steve Forbes

  Government, Chinese, Losing

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

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• The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.

  Xi Jinping

  Government, Practice, Support

  "Does China's government hack US companies to steal secrets?" by Mark Ward, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Government, Apples, Google

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• You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.

  David Titley

  Government, People, Chinese

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.

  Iwane Matsui

  Mean, Army, Government

  "Shanghai's Undeclared War: An Illustrated Factual Recording of the Shanghai Hostilities". Book by George C. Bruce, p. 54, 1937.

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• Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

  Bob Filner

  Government, Years, Chinese

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• Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.

  Jiang Zemin

  New York, Condolences, Cities

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• In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world"

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Intelligent, Government

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• The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

  Jiang Zemin

  Thinking, Government, Chinese

  "China keeps watch on U.S. policy shifts" by Willy Wo-Lap Lam, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

  Li Hongzhi

  Teaching, Government, People

  Interview with William Dowell, content.time.com. May 10, 1999.

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• When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

  Eric Metaxas

  Lying, Government, Cynical

  "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.

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