Hope is the last thing to die, and the first thing to betray you.

The most successful societies in the world are those that have been able to combine a strong state with the rule of law and democratic accountability.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to survive.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

城市是一个不断进化的生命体。

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.