Asian Quotes: Inspiring Wisdom from the East

"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 countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies"

Jim Costa, Politician

"And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America"

Barack Obama, President

"For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies"

Joan Chen, Actress

"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents"

Joan Chen, Actress

"And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"They probably do have an Asian Barbie"

Iris Chang, Historian

"There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange"

William Odom, Soldier

"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life"

Martha Beck, Author

"My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome"

Ron Kind, Politician

"The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness"

Montel Williams, Entertainer

"In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know"

Sandra Oh, Actress

"The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back"

Lee Westwood, Athlete

"Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people"

James Iha, Musician

"When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now"

Chad Hugo, Musician

"Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population"

Lin Biao, Politician

"We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well"

Junichiro Koizumi, Statesman

"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival"

John Foster, Architect

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