Anson Chan Quotes
Remember that you cannot please everybody because you are likely to end up pleasing nobody.
Anson Chan, Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration, Advice to Civil Servants, Interview with Harry Kreisler, Conversations with History, January 27, 1997
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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.