--- title: "1 Hard News Quotes By Gordon G. Chang" description: "1 Hard News quotes by Gordon G. Chang. Plus more from Gordon G. Chang and more Hard News sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f3/gordon-g-chang-10335_internet_there-is-one-situation-worse-than-too-mu_2397292.jpg" --- > [“there is one situation worse than too much information: not enough of it. When hard news is scarce, rumors arise everywhere. Rumors don’t have to be true, they just have to be spread. And these days the Internet is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/there-is-one-situation-worse-than-too-much-information-not-enough-of/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f3/gordon-g-chang-10335_internet_there-is-one-situation-worse-than-too-mu_2397292.jpg) ## More by Gordon G. Chang > [“in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/in-the-words-of-jurist-john-marshall-of-the-u-s-supreme-court-the/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India’s Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/yet-zhongguancun-pales-when-measured-against-india-s-bangalore-where/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“the traditionally used ratios of deficit to GDP and total debt to GDP, as computed using the official numbers, grossly overstate how much more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/the-traditionally-used-ratios-of-deficit-to-gdp-and-total-debt-to-gdp/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/as-long-as-our-dreams-outweigh-our-memories-america-will-be-forever/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/china-will-make-real-progress-in-the-fight-against-corruption-only/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/the-students-who-surrendered-the-square-on-the-morning-of-june-4/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Consider these words from Lech Wałęsa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/consider-these-words-from-lech-wa-sa-in-the-past-you-could-stand-with/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. “Practise not doing and everything will fall into place,” says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism’s primer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/before-laissez-faire-there-was-wu-wei-practise-not-doing-and/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China’s markets are being manipulated.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/at-any-given-time-about-30-percent-of-the-stocks-on-china-s-markets/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Restraint, however, is the essence of modern governance. A government’s self-control permits its people to create, explore, and discover, and that’s what allows a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/restraint-however-is-the-essence-of-modern-governance-a-government-s/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Until the tide goes out you don’t know who’s swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/until-the-tide-goes-out-you-don-t-know-who-s-swimming-naked-warren/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/communism-went-against-life-against-man-s-fundamental-needs-against/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/the-maoist-mechanisms-of-social-control-have-been-loosened-a/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Although China is short of the people it really needs—scientists, economists, doctors, teachers, practically everybody, in fact, except Indian chiefs—it employs its best and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/although-china-is-short-of-the-people-it-really-needs-scientists/) [Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-g-chang/) > [“Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-g-chang/crime-wouldn-t-pay-if-the-government-ran-it-unknown/) [Gordon G. 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