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Jackie Chan may be an adorable and well-liked kung fu superstar, but he sure doesn't seem to know when it's time to stop talking. We've recorded several of his gaffes before, including one made earlier this year when he insinuated that Chinese need to be controlled... but this latest interview really takes the cake.

Quote of the Day: Xu Guoyuan, ex-mayor of Chifeng City

“I cannot remember the people who bribed me with money, but I do remember the ones that didn’t.” — Xu Guoyuan (徐国元), ex-mayor and vice Party chief of Chifeng City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Quote of the Day: Qin Gang (秦刚), Foreign Ministry spokesman

“站稳立场 屁股决定脑袋.”
"Stand your ground firmly. Your bottom decides where your brain is."

Quote of the Day: Qin Gang (秦刚), Foreign Ministry spokesman

我想提醒你的是,这里是外交部的新闻发布厅,
不是讨论同性恋问题的场所。
What I'd like to remind you is this.This is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conference and not a forum for the discussion of gay issues.

Quote of the Day: Jackie Chan, superstar

'I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not...
I'm really confused now. If you're too free,
you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
Taiwan is also chaotic... I'm gradually beginning
to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled.
If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.'
-- Jackie Chan to an audience of business leaders on Hainan island.

Quote of the Day: John McCain, Republican Senator of Arizona

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Meet the Press.

Quote of the Day: Oded Shenkar

"It kind of erodes moral authority

'This home is being forcibly demolished in accordance with the law.'

'You can take a Chinese or an Indian, bring them to America and,
as a minority in the American milieu, he will begin to absorb the American ethos.
But you bring a few Americans to China or India and you think
you can spread this ethos into India and China, you're dead wrong.'

"There are still only two kinds of capitalism.
There's authoritarian capitalism, as in China and Singapore,
and there's democratic capitalism, as in the U.S. and Europe.
If there's anyone out there who has a better idea,
I'm sure the world would love to hear about it."

“Tian Liang is an older brother. Kenneth Fok makes me more beautiful”

“Because we are in such a system, we are always
asking ourselves whether we are brainwashed.
We are always eager to get other information from different channels.
But when you are in a so-called free system
you never think about whether you are brainwashed.”

"You can't say whether this is karma or not
because nobody wants to see a big disaster happen.
When a natural disaster strikes, you cannot avoid it.
Perhaps the Heavens are meting out punishment in order to
make people protect the natural environment better.
這不可以說是報不報應,因每個人也不想發生嚴重災難,
而且天災的事想避也避不到,可能是上天給予的懲罰,
要人們更加保護自然環境。"

"Any trivial matter multiplied by 1.3 billion will become a big problem;
Any astronomical figure divided by 1.3 billion will become a tiny number."

一个很小的问题,乘以13亿,都会变成一个大问题;一个很大的总量,除以13亿,都会变成一个小数目。

are quite open about why."

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