A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.