US President George W. Bush, on pressing for greater religious freedom in China:
“But nobody needs to … tell old George Bush … that he needs to bring religious freedom to the doorstep of the Chinese, because I’ve done that now for – I’m on my eighth year doing it.”
Zhu Baoliang of the State Information Center, on the US$80 billion in hot money that entered China in the first quarter:
“The massive amount [of hot money] is not hype but a scientific conclusion. To be frank, we had no clue of how the money flowed into our country.”
CNN’s Jack Cafferty, during an April 9 broadcast of The Situation Room:
“We also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we’re buying from Wal-Mart. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they’re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years.”
New Zealand trade minister Phil Goff, speaking during the signing of a free trade agreement between China and New Zealand:
“Just about every country in the world wants a trade agreement with China. New Zealand was important because we set the basis for the future negotiations and we have tried to come up with a high-quality and comprehensive deal.”
