Both the efforts and the contribution he made will be permanently admired by all circles of life and the people from the two sides will remember him forever. |
Chairman Ma likes to tell newlyweds that grooms should never question the brides because the brides will never be wrong ... You [Chen] are not a bride, and [Ma] is not your groom, so how can you ask him whether you are wrong? |
Faced with China's rise, we should be benign, optimistic and focused on co-existence and shared prosperity. Don't demonize and vilify China, and don't treat it as a threat. |
Get elected. Get elected, ... stay with the party forever. |
I sincerely ask the president, have you heard people's view? What is it that prevents you from coming out? ... Don't hide in your house. |
I want to meet China's leaders and start a dialogue with them on the most important issues in cross-Straits relations ... peace, and economic and cultural exchanges, |
I would like to work with you to turn our aspiration and prospects into reality, |
I'm looking forward to making concerted effort to promote trade and economic cooperation for mutual benefit, and to promote the happiness of the people on both sides. |
I've let down everybody's high hopes. I feel very sorry. |
If we continue to live in the past and explain the past and present with a pessimistic conception of history, populism will spread and hinder the development of the entire nation and the society. |
It is time we proceed even further with this reformist endeavor ... we have to continue our combat against the underworld and money politics, |
It was absurd to place the Taiwan independence movement in a scenario of 'monkey cries on both banks behind my boat', |
Northeast China was occupied by the Japanese invaders for 14 years and my hometown Taiwan was even under the control of the Japanese for 50 years. These are the great shame of our nationality, |
Our two parties were enemies in the past. Everyone knows this history. But history is in the past. We can't change it. But the future is in our hands and offers many opportunities. |
Recalling history and looking into the future, I hope the country and the nation will never be bullied by others. Therefore prosperity and peace is the goal we should pursue. We must seek peace and development through peaceful coexistence and cooperation and share prosperity in the future. I believe it is the grand common aspiration of our nation, |