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I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

Chen Shui bian

I am driven / Into a desperate strait and cannot steer / A middle course.

Philip Massinger

Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits understand what Mr. Lee represents and are fully aware of the serious damage he has inflicted on the cross-strait relations.

Li Weiyi

George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldn't mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.

Dierks Bentley

I had renegade parents. Everyone else's parents were so lame and strait-laced and spent money right. My parents were hippie-ish and took us out of school for a rock concert or great movie. Their record collection was really important to me. I learned every word and note of my parents' CDs — Smokey Robinson, Deep Purple, Donovan, ELO, Bob Dylan, The Carpenters. It was very eclectic.

Billy Lunn

The political tectonic plates that divide the Taiwan Strait are shifting, and they are not moving closer toward each other.

Daniel Blumenthal

It would be a negative for Cathay Pacific because it would cut into the traffic between Taiwan and Hong Kong, ... But it would be a positive for the other carriers, who would see a significant increase in traffic on the cross-strait route.

Andy Rothman

This is something that our people will welcome because we want to avoid confrontation across the Taiwan Strait and our people would like to see dialogue and reconciliation and cooperation.

Lien Chan

It's becoming more focused, more modern, better trained, better equipped than it has ever been across the Taiwan Strait.

Bates Gill

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

My party opposes any pro-independence unilateral changes to the status quo across the Taiwan Strait that could bring Taiwan to the brink of war with China.

James Soong

Because they were walking across the Bering Strait, they could not take the normal route. Consequently, they didn't have the correct stamps and a landing permit.

Keith Bushby

Anyone who is not scared in those conditions is not human, ... For a long time in Bass Strait we were not racing. Nor was anyone else.

Chris Dickson

People will not be satisfied if their wishes are not met. They will not consent to prolonged obstruction of cross-Strait links.

Chen Yunlin

I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Bram Stoker

To maintain stability across the Taiwan Strait is in the interests of China and other countries, so we hope relevant countries are on alert to the wrong actions and dangerous activities by Taiwan forces.

Liu Jianchao

Concerns over a possible straining in already tense relations across the Taiwan Strait remained a drag on the market.

Oliver Fang

The convention of the cross-Strait forum on economic and trade affairs is essential and pressing, as cross-Strait economic cooperation and exchanges have been developed for more than 20 years.

Chen Yunlin

Panic selling emerged right from the opening amid uncertainties over cross-strait relations after Chen's victory.

Ben Lee

To achieve (Taiwan) independence in a peaceful way so that there will be one (separate) country on either side of the Taiwan Strait.

Xu Bodong

President Chen's latest policy initiative will only increase cross-Strait tensions. The tax season approaches and this will draw liquidity away as retail investors sell.

Spencer White

Hopefully this will send a very strong message to the international community that we are serious about maintaining the security of the Malacca Strait.

Najib Razak

We all have a common responsibility to advance cross-Taiwan Strait ties.

James Soong

American policy on cross-strait issues is firm and unchanging. Our strong desire is that Taiwan's policy not depart from that strong foundation (of peace).

David Keegan

The death of Wang, coming almost exactly one year after Koo, is a loss for both sides of the Strait.

Joseph Wu

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

Archibald Alexander

We hope relevant countries alert themselves to the dangerous actions of the 'Taiwan independence' forces, and work with china to maintain stability and development across the Taiwan Strait.

Liu Jianchao

Presence of American troops in the Strait of Malacca could lead to some kind of reaction from terrorists. Once people start shooting in territorial waters, then the question of sovereignty is sharpened.

Alan Chan

The forum exposes the current government's inability to promote cross-Strait economic and trade relations.

Philip Yang

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

How specifically to define the one-China principle -- and how concretely to realize it -- is best left to the two sides of the strait on a mutually acceptable basis, ... not to mediate, not to exert pressure, but to understand.

Richard Bush