Anson Chan Quotes
I do not say what I do not mean. Neither can anyone force me to say what I don't wish to say.
Anson Chan, Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration, Newsweek Magazine,1997
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Mrs Shehan was trying to have a meeting with the President to ask why the nations was occupying Iraq.
Anson Maria Elizabeth Chan Fang On-sang, GBM, GCMG, CBE, JP is a retired Hong Kong politician and civil servant who was the first ethnic Chinese and woman to serve as Chief Secretary, the second-highest position in both the British colonial government and the Hong Kong SAR government under the Chinese sovereignty from 1993 until she retired from the government in 2001, sparking speculations of her growing rift with Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.