My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy maintain its rule with force but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But of course in this case we will certainly fight with all our strength.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

If we all say the same thing then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it I become singled out even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society people are giving up on protecting these values.

Every society all government and every kind of civil compact therefore is or ought to be calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.