We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I think people see me as authentic, just like I am, with my ideas, my style of doing politics.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.