Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count…

I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Larry Herzberg

[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, maybe…

— Van Jones

“China has the world’s largest navy, much larger than the USA.”

— Steven Magee

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured…

— Dennis C. Blair

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

You have a lot of suspicion from the neighbors of Afghanistan about U.S. intentions. Iran is already, to some extent, trying to undermine the…

— Ahmed Rashid

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.…

— Hermann E. Ott

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian…

— Jim Costa

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

— Li Peng

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty…

— Anna Lindh