Donald Tsang famous quotes

In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust.
-- Donald Tsang

#Order #Needs #Suffrage

I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.
-- Donald Tsang

#Issues #People #Focus

The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world ... you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live
-- Donald Tsang

#People #Friendly #World

All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote. ... While the backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.
-- Donald Tsang

#Country #Strong #Team

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. ... [It] was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.
-- Donald Tsang

#Mean #Swings #Hands

I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.
-- Donald Tsang

#Order #Needs #Suffrage

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.