There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

Taiwan is a major economy.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments.

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

Fashion's been really good to me. It financed Patti Smith: Dream of Life.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.