Jimmy Lai Quotes

America Was Promises

America looked like the land of the future, separated by an ocean from the misfortunes, follies, and crimes of Europe.

I still have a dream.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?

The future is limitless.

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.

In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

The future is in our hands!

Confidence in the future -- Hope -- gives power to individuals and communities. It is that which enables the poor man to become rich, and the character of all legislative action is to be judged by its greater or lesser tendency to produce this effect.

When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.

I think this is the story of this country, that you get to come here and build a better future for yourself and for your neighbours than you could have anywhere else in the world.

Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance.

It is easy for Americans to forget a simple fact that is very clear to the people around the world that yearn to live in this country: America is the best country in the entire damn world! It deserves to be made great again, because America is, in the words of President Ronald Reagan, 'the last best hope of mankind.'

There was the Cultural Revolution just over the border, and Hong Kong felt quite dodgy. My younger brother's wife actually swam from China to Hong Kong to escape. I realised in the '60s that I had to get out.

I maintain hope that this country can be what it's supposed to be.

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

There's a way out of every situation.

After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow.