Ma Ying-jeou quotes

“With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.”
-- Ma Ying-jeou

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“Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.”
-- Ma Ying-jeou

Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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“I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.”
-- Ma Ying-jeou

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“It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.”
-- Ma Ying-jeou

Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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“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

Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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“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

Source : Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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“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

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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.”

“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.”

“If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.”

“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”

“One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.”

“Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...”

“I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.”