Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they c...
Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.
You can do nothing about governments and winter.
Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
You sound like you're mentally deficient. And possibly Chinese.
Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore - a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she was willing to join the fight and sacrifice herself.
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.
The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
