I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It is fine to be involved in social life and bring life to the community

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.