Jeou Quotes

#1. Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.

Tsai Ing-wen

#2. Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

Ma Ying-jeou

#3. There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

Amartya Sen

#4. I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

Ma Ying-jeou

#5. With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

Ma Ying-jeou

#6. People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Ma Ying-jeou

#7. Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Alfred Stieglitz

#8. Cooperation can make you stronger. If you are strong enough to cooperate." /Loki/

Zoltan Posfai

#9. I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

Ma Ying-jeou

#10. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

Ma Ying-jeou

#12. Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Ma Ying-jeou

#13. Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.

Niccolo Machiavelli