China Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
John Bruton

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?
Charles Foster Bass

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.
Leroy Chiao

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
John Hench

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
David Frum

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences.
Mao Tse-Tung

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.
Fred Thompson

The worst fears of the Hong Kong people have been confirmed by the events in Peking.
Selina Chow

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.
Mao Tse-Tung

Son: Is it true? Dad, I heard that in ancient China, a man doesn’t know his wife until he marries.
Anonymous

The object of China’s strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world’s premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.
Frank Gaffney

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I’d spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn’t matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
Philip Pullman

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.
Chris Chocola

Over a long distance, you learn about the strength of your horse; over a long time, you learn about the character of your friend.
Chinese Proverb

Gentleness was considered ‘bourgeois’…Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying ‘thank you’ too often, which was branded as ‘bourgeois hypocrisy’.
Jung Chang

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.
Townsend Harris

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America’s long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.
Joe Baca

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Benjamin Franklin

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.
Yuan Shikai

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
Martin van Creveld

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
Jo Ann Emerson

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

In spring 1989…I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.
Jung Chang

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.
Lorrie Fair

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.
Charles Foster Bass

Money made through dishonest practices will not last long.
Chinese Proverb

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.
Anna Lindh

The tension here is very high, the Chinese are enormously brave and they keep telling me they are not afraid to die for democracy but the students know that they will be the Army’s first target.
Alex Woodhatch

Let observation, with extensive view, / Survey mankind from China to Peru.
Samuel Johnson