Asia Quotes · Page 5

“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!”

— Gerry Abbey

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

— Ananda Krishnan

In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying…

— Godfrey Gao

“I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.”

— Abigail Friedman

Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision…

— Chris Patten

When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn't matter if he's Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.

— Bashar al-Assad

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

— Chiang Kai-shek

Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

— Rainbow Rowell

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children.…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our…

— Vladimir Putin

What we have to do is make our way in Asia ourselves with an independent foreign policy. Our future is basically in…

— Paul Keating

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal…

— Francois Gautier

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of…

— Martin Jacques

Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a…

— William Goldman

I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the…

— Sibel Edmonds

“Protestantism harbors within it certain elements – just as the Great Reformer himself harbored such elements within his personality. I am thinking…

— Thomas Mann

“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring…

— Christopher Hitchens

Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people.…

— Euvin Naidoo

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it…

— John Burdett

Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of…

— Norbert Reithofer

It will be interesting to see if Seoul's urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as…

— Jan Chipchase

At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right…

— Warren Farrell

I had been quite happy and content working in Asia. I've got a lot of friends out there and loved travelling.

— David James

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to…

— Kerri Kasem

It is inconceivable that the rise of Asia could happen without the rise of the Indian subcontinent.

— Sanjaya Baru

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

— Benazir Bhutto

I've traveled to Brazil, Europe, Asia - all in preparation to defeat Demetrious Johnson, to defeat the pound-for-pound best fighter in history.

— Henry Cejudo

SingTel has made substantial investments in markets with high growth potential in South Asia, such as India and Bangladesh.

— Chua Sock Koong

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast.…

— Maggie Q

In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

“When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.”

— Larry Herzberg

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like…

— Pharrell Williams

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

— Lawrence Summers

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy,…

— Kevin Kwan

The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

— Joseph J. Romm

Few disagree with the view that the 21st century will witness the return of Asia to the centrestage of global economic activity.

— Sanjaya Baru

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets.…

— Barack Obama

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

— Lee H. Hamilton