I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

Free Tibet before free trade.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.

History can never be covered up.

Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.

This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

Everybody sung in my family.

So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

You dont inspire your team by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.

Be honest, be kind, and share the love.

Money is a way of expressing no compromise.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity.

We would love to have other children. It hasn't happened. We haven't been lucky enough.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.