Asia Quotes:

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

- Ahmet Davutoglu

source: Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

topic: Land, United States, Asia

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Asia, Scared, Gulf War

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet ...

- Alexandra David-Neel

topic: Travel, Asia, Traveler

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

- Amy Chua

topic: Psychological Disorders, West, Asia

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

- Anais Nin

topic: Art, Asia, Language, Bali, Religion And Art

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

- Andy Lau

topic: Idols, Asia, Hong Kong

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

- Bai Ling

topic: Sex, People, Asia

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Rights, Together, Asia, Balkans, Weakening

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

- Benazir Bhutto

topic: Military, Government, Asia, South Asia, Promoting Peace

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

- Chiang Kai-shek

source: "The voice of China; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & co. ltd, 1944.

topic: Desire, Asia, Imperialism, Isolationism

Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.

- Chris Patten

source: "Governor defends Hong Kong democracy in final speech" by Mike Chinoy, www.cnn.com. October 2, 1996.

topic: Vision, East, Asia

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia

- Dan Buettner

topic: Asia, Singapore

Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.

- Eleanor Coppola

source: Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Amadeus Press

topic: Asia, Hong Kong, Supermarkets

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.

- Francois Gautier

topic: Writing, Europe, Asia, South Asia, Publication

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

- Han Suyin

topic: Long, Done, Asia

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

- Hassanal Bolkiah

topic: East, Kingdoms, Asia, East Asia

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: People, Culture, Asia

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

- J. William Fulbright

topic: Feelings, Excess, Asia, Impotence, South Asia

After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

- Jackie Chan

topic: Years, People, Asia, Jackie

I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Years, Four, Asia

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

- John Abizaid

topic: Powerful, Earth, Asia, Central Asia, Horn Of Africa

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

- John Mearsheimer

source: John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.402, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Believe, Europe, Asia

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

- K.P. Yohannan

source: K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

topic: Everyday, United States, Asia, Living Conditions, Everyday Living

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

- Kenzaburo Oe

topic: Country, Japan, Asia, Invaders

From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.

- Kenzaburo Oe

source: "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

topic: Japan, Views, Asia, New Situations

Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.

- Khaleda Zia

topic: America, Asia, Southeast Asia

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

- Kim Dae-jung

topic: Asia, Unification, Stability

We have a small wish in 2008. We would like to conquer Asia.

- Kim Hyo-yeon

topic: Wish, Asia, Conquer

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

- Kishore Mahbubani

source: "The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World". Book by Kishore Mahbubani, February 05, 2013.

topic: World, Asia, West

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

- LeCrae

topic: Struggle, Haiti, Asia

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

- Lee H. Hamilton

topic: Middle East, Attention, Asia, East Asia

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

- Leon Panetta

topic: Asia, Prosperity, Century

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

- Martha Beck

topic: Expectations, Asia, Results

If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: War, America, Asia, South America, Penitence

if you increase living standards you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

- Michael Hudson

topic: Today, Asia, Becoming

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

- Michelle Bachelet

topic: Opportunity, Asia, India, Decent Work

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

- Mohsin Hamid

topic: Strong, Thinking, Asia, South Asia

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

- Norodom Sihanouk

source: Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

topic: Organization, East, Asia, East Asia, Cambodia

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

- Park Geun-hye

topic: Perception, Trying, Asia, East Asia, North East

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

- Paul Keating

topic: Asia, United States, Good Things

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

- Paul Keating

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Australia, Asia, Security

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

- Peter Agre

topic: School, Epidemics, Asia, South Asia, Medical Education

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

- Pope Francis

topic: Asia, Filipino, Outstanding

Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

- Rainbow Rowell

topic: Asia, Filipino

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: Cities, Asia, Trends

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Too Much, Asia, West

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

- Stanley Baldwin

topic: Freedom, Wind, Asia

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.

- Susan Oliver

topic: Relationship, Thinking, Asia

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

- Thomas E. Donilon

topic: President, United States, Asia

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

- William Westmoreland

topic: Military, Asia, Communist, Indochina, South Asia

There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember that modern East Asia did not begin with Confucius. In fact the experience of modern education in East Asia is relatively short and granted that time scale, many universities are doing fine.

- Henry Rosovsky

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Asia, Facts, East, Modern Education, East Asia

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.

- Hermann E. Ott

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Flying, Energy, Asia, Concorde

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

- Loretta Napoleoni

topic: People, Slavery, Asia

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Drinking, Littles, Asia

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

- Paul Achleitner

topic: Army, Asia, Economic

Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt.

- Paul Achleitner

topic: Important, World, Asia

Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world.

- Tulsi Tanti

topic: World, Asia, Location

The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.

- Roh Moo-hyun

source: "Roh Moo-Hyun's Inauguration Speech". February 25, 2003.

topic: Age, Asia

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

- Scott Anderson

topic: Father, Europe, Asia, Long Road

In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.

- Louis Farrakhan

topic: Community, Middle East, Asia

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Stupid, Asia, Piety, Monotonous

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2, p. 180, April 1999.

topic: Europe, Russia, Asia

Most likely, the system of mutual relations that has evolved in Eastern Europe and Asia corresponds to another level of governance.

- Garry Kasparov

source: Source: www.rferl.org

topic: Europe, Levels, Asia, Eastern Europe

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.

- Maggie Q

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Asia, Tvs, Film

If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: India, Asia, If I Could

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

- Plutarch

source: Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.69

topic: Men, People, Asia

Finding specialty food items was a bit of a challenge in Asia in the early days of getting the Mozza's up and running. Everything is built on relationships, and when you start somewhere new, it takes time to develop that. Staffing can also present challenges.

- Joe Bastianich

topic: Running, Challenges, Asia, Staffing

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

- Amartya Sen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Educational, Asia, Expansion, South Asia

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

- Margaret Cho

topic: America, Heritage, Asia

Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock.

- Ralph Nader

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Issues, Asia, Republican, Gridlock

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

- Anthony Bourdain

source: "The Hot Seat: No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Sarah Bruning, www.timeout.com. September 3, 2012.

topic: Flavor, Asia, Firsts, Southeast Asia, Used To Love

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

- Masiela Lusha

source: Source: thecelebritycafe.com

topic: Rural Areas, Thailand, Asia

This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.straitstimes.com

topic: East, Asia, 50th Anniversary, East Asia

I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

- Harry Belafonte

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: America, Comfort, Asia

For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.straitstimes.com

topic: Two, Years, Asia, Pacific

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

- Vijay Singh

topic: People, Asia, Poverty

In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Patterns, Asia, Preference

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: United States, Asia, China, Cooperatives

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

- Benito Mussolini

topic: Lying, East, Asia

The U.S. didn't save enough; we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.

- Henry Paulson

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Oil, Imbalance, Asia

One of the reasons why I say we all need to work together to save the Congo forest, because if we don't save the Congo forest, the Amazon forest and the southeast Asia forest, if those forests release the carbon they are trapping at the moment, much of what you will be doing in the North will be negated by the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

- Wangari Maathai

source: Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

topic: Atmosphere, Together, Asia, Southeast Asia, Congo

Well, I'm just quoting you when you [Donald Trump] were asked about a potential nuclear competition in Asia, you said, you know, go ahead, enjoy yourselves, folks.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Competition, Nuclear, Asia

[Donald Trump] even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well, you know, that's fine have a good time, folks.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: time.com

topic: War, Nuclear, Asia, East Asia

It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Australia, Environmental, Asia

The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a fixed exchange rate, abolish your central bank and adopt a currency board instead. Either extreme; a fixed exchange rate through a currency board, but no central bank, or a central bank plus truly floating exchange rates; either of those is a tenable arrangement. But a pegged exchange rate with a central bank is a recipe for trouble.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Recipes, Want, Asia

Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.

- Brent Scowcroft

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Middle East, World, Asia, Central Asia, Balkans

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

topic: Race, Government, Asia, Turkish, Armenian Genocide

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.

- Kristin Bauer van Straten

topic: Animal, Trying, Asia

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Miracle, World, Asia, Midwesterners

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Europe, Germany, Asia

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: People, India, Asia, Southeast Asia

I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.

- Erykah Badu

topic: Different, Way, Asia

Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has paid reparations and so on. Japan, in contrast, apologizes for nothing and has paid no reparations, with one exception: It pays reparations to the United States, but not to Asia.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.madre.org

topic: War, Japan, Asia, Reparations

There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first.

- Sheldon Adelson

topic: Real, Asia, Firsts

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

source: "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

topic: California, Desire, Asia