This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and individual rights.

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

History is the archaeology of the present and future.

To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

China seems to have skillfully adapted a Monroe Doctrine, or “Ménluó” (a transliteration of the word “Monroe”) Doctrine, in America’s backyard.

Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.

The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.

China is constantly reinventing itself and so is the United States.

Dare to try again when you failure.

We conquer by continuing.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

My idea of home is not necessarily a place.

You can't really dust for vomit.

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.