Zheng Bijian quotes

“The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.”
-- Zheng Bijian

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“The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union”
-- Zheng Bijian

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“In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.”
-- Zheng Bijian

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“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.”

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”

“I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.”

“Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.”

“I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.”