I wasn't a party apparatchik. I think too many of today's people in both parties come forward, university, 'What party will I join? Oh, yes, I know somebody here. I might get a job working for this member or for that shadow minister or minister.'

If we want a cohesive society, if we want people that are prepared to respect others who are different in our society, I think a number of the race-related issues have been handled in ways which I really abhor.

Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women.

People die because they find living too painful.

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what's happening in government... this is a real life superhero right here.

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.