China Quotes - Page 6

• We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.

  Jay Inslee

  Technology, Light, Poverty

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.

  Jay Inslee

  Moving, Responsibility, Cutting

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• For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

  Paul Achleitner

  America, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North Sea island of) Sylt instead of in the Seychelles, or drive more economical cars - for the sake of preserving increasingly scarce resources if nothing else. But that won't enable us to stop climate change. As long as China, India and the United States continue the way they have been, what we Germans do is more or less irrelevant.

  Hans von Storch

  Vacation, Islands, Sea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.

  Timothy Miller

  Nice, Thug, Government

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• This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Secret, Agents, Administration

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• Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today, I can die for something. My way, my choice.

  Jack Bauer

  Differences, Choices, Dying

  "24/ Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m". January 2007.

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• In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, Where is my food?

  Li Ang

  Running, Government, Iowa

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• First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  Philosophy, Reading, Humorous

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• Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Jobs, New Job, Want

  "Caterpillar CEO: Higher taxes do not stimulate anything". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

  Victor Koo

  Agency, Government, Branding

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• America can compete with anyone in the world as long as the playing field is level. China's been cheating over the years. One by holding down the value of their currency. Number two, by stealing our intellectual property; our designs, our patents, our technology. We will have to have people play on a fair basis.

  Mitt Romney

  Cheating, Technology, Years

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• I just went along for the ride. It was a God-given gift. It is. So you can't say well, you wasted your life because you spent all of it acting, but I think gosh, I've never been to China, I've never been to Japan. I've never been to Yellowstone Park.

  Angela Lansbury

  Thinking, Yellowstone, Japan

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Design, Creative

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• Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China

  Gary Miller

  Oil, Demand, Crude

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• C'm'on lefties! Admit that Trump has been very tough on China. He has been especially tough on Chinese kids who slave away in sweatboxes, making his clothing lines.

  Michael R. Burch

  Kids, Clothing Line, Chinese

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• Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Modern, Admirable

  "The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act?". Noam Chomsky during Debates with Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, chomsky.info. December 15, 1967.

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• While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

  Mao Zedong

  Swimming, Thinking, Security Guards

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• To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How much do I have to pay?" It was just like a dream come true. That was an amazing experience.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Dream, Top 10, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.

  Robert Scheer

  Powerful, Play, Enemy

  Robert Scheer (2006). “Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush”, p.297, Akashic Books

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• I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Country, Egypt, Interesting

  "Bitsie Tulloch Takes Us Behind-the-Scenes of Grimm and Spills Her Favorite Obsessions!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Rights, Law, Doubt

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• There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

  Bonnie Blair

  Perfect, Community, Storm

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• I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You're a long way from home and you've got no phone and you can't get in touch with anybody.

  Jill Douglas

  Nice, Home, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Chinese companies may well be competitive on their domestic market, but it will be another 6 to 8 years before they become serious competitors internationally. We should not be afraid of China, but should learn from them instead.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Years, Chinese, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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