China Is Quotes

#1. There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.

Michael Anti

#2. I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population.

Douglas Booth

#3. One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

Alan Greenspan

#4. In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.

Ivan Krastev

#5. Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

China Mieville

#6. In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

Paul Tsongas

#7. The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.

Phil Gramm

#8. The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

Dan Quayle

#9. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.

Chloe Thurlow

#10. In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

Ma Huateng

#11. The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.

Tom Clancy

#12. In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

Ray Dalio

#13. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.

Vann Chow

#14. The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China.

Victor Koo

#15. Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.

Hu Jintao

#16. China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

Li Keqiang

#17. President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That's after they taught Putin how to put a shirt ON.

Jimmy Fallon

#18. It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

Zhou Yongkang

#19. I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

Jung Chang

#20. The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

Klaus Schwab

#21. The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

Hans Rosling

#22. The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.'

George Osborne

#23. My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

China Mieville

#24. The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.

Patrick Mendis

#25. Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Rebecca West

#26. Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.

David Ignatius

#27. China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

Roger Altman

#28. Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

Barry McGuire

#29. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

Dominic Stevenson

#30. There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

Michael Phelps

#31. Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.

Adi Godrej

#32. Overall employment pressure is also fading because China's working-age population peaked in 2011 and the fall is expected to accelerate, due largely to the decades-old one-child policy.

Anonymous

#33. Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

Joseph Needham

#34. Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

China Mieville

#35. I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.

Li Bingbing

#36. It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically.

Mao Zedong

#37. Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

Lin Yutang

#38. While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

Ma Jun

#39. The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

William Hague

#40. Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

James Fallows

#41. I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.

Jung Chang

#42. I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Alice Walker

#43. China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

Hu Jintao

#44. Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.

Bei Dao

#45. Taking part in the Western mission to civilize the East is highly spiritually rewarding. And what is political destabilization and social unrest but a sweet revenge for China's disregard for Western hegemony.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#46. Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

Jonah Goldberg

#47. Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

Mark Falcoff

#48. The Facebook of China, however, is Renren, launched in 2005. (The Google of China is Baidu, and the Twitter of China is Sina Weibo.)

Clay Shirky

#49. The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.

Evan Osnos

#50. Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.

Junichiro Koizumi

#51. Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

Bobby Jindal

#52. China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

Charles De Gaulle

#53. My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai

Barack Obama

#54. The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it's a door. Your heart beats harder when you knock.

China Mieville

#55. The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

Hu Jintao

#56. He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

Jennifer Lanthier

#57. I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.

Matt Kemp

#58. Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.

Diego Della Valle

#59. China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

John Palfrey

#60. I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

Zhang Xin

#61. Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!

Sha Li

#62. China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

Berti Vogts

#63. China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

P. J. O'Rourke

#64. Both the nationalists and the communists disapproved of jazz and feared it. They thought it would weaken people's resolve to fight off the invasion. And most Americans know, China did ban all Western music for about 30 years, starting in 1949. This is where it started.

Nicole Mones

#65. When you're in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

Tracey Wilen

#66. The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Derek Bok

#67. China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.

Fred Thompson

#68. Reform is China's second revolution.

Deng Xiaoping

#69. Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Douglas Rushkoff

#70. China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Rose George

#71. Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.'
'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought ... '
'History ... ' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.

China Mieville

#72. One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.

Nicolas Cage

#73. In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Peter Hessler

#74. In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.

Wolfgang Schauble

#75. I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

Ayshay

#76. Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

China Mieville

#77. There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

Richard Wilhelm

#78. This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on?

China Mieville

#79. As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Jo Ann Emerson

#80. The West can only try to destroy Russia and China internally, through horrendous sets of tricks, propaganda and toxic lies. But now even such a scenario is unlikely.

Andre Vltchek

#81. We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.

Barack Obama

#82. The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

Mason Cooley

#83. I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.

Pico Iyer

#84. Look at that. There one family lives, kitchen is in China, bedroom is in Myanmar. In this way, this family eats in one country, sleeps in other. I think this house been standing there for many centuries, yes, long time, before anyone decided where one country stops, the other starts

Amy Tan

#85. They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

L. Ron Hubbard

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

Jim Elliot

#87. That's one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

Jim Oberweis

#88. What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

Henry A. Kissinger

#89. What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

Michele Bachmann

#90. China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

Ziyi Zhang

#91. Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

Evgeny Morozov

#92. No matter what China is going to become, China will never recover her true originality if she tries to please the West on Western terms.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#93. I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.

Yiyun Li

#94. China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

Ma Jun

#95. China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.

Henry A. Kissinger

#96. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

#97. The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Steve Forbes

#98. China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs and therefore has to say: in our own interest, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of development of the African continent.

Thabo Mbeki

#99. China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation.

Li Zhaoxing

#100. But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.

Virginia Woolf