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When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.
Carrie Lam
Matter
Hong Kong
Say
Administration
City
London
Had
Kong
Govern
Were
Governors
British
Governance under a chief executive elected by universal suffrage will give fresh impetus to economic and livelihood policies.
Carrie Lam
Will
Give
Economic
Impetus
Executive
Policies
Fresh
Governance
Chief
Chief Executive
Elected
Livelihood
Suffrage
Universal
Universal Suffrage
It's clear that means testing can direct limited resources to the elderly in need and achieve better results in poverty alleviation.
Carrie Lam
Better
Achieve
Poverty
Resources
Direct
Results
Clear
Limited
Limited Resources
Testing
Elderly
Means
Need
Real politics should work for the long-term and overall interests of the community.
Carrie Lam
Work
Politics
Community
Long-Term
Overall
Real
Interests
Should
In my opinion, serving the common good is the true purpose of politics and is also the perspective through which our community should consider constitutional reform.
Carrie Lam
Politics
Good
Perspective
Community
Consider
Our
Our Community
Constitutional
Purpose
Through
True
Also
Opinion
Reform
Common
In My Opinion
Common Good
Which
Should
Serving
Nobody wants a stalemate in constitutional development.
Carrie Lam
Constitutional
Development
Nobody
Wants
I firmly believe that the wider community supports achieving the goal of universal suffrage for 2017 according to law. I also believe most political parties do not want to see a failure to attain the goal.
Carrie Lam
Failure
Law
Political
Community
Believe
See
Attain
Firmly
Supports
Most
Parties
Also
Goal
According
Political Parties
Want
Achieving
Suffrage
Universal
Universal Suffrage
Wider
It is my earnest hope that all parties across the political spectrum will bear Hong Kong's long-term interests in mind, apply their political wisdom, and seek a consensus through open and rational communication with people of different views.
Carrie Lam
Wisdom
Hope
Communication
People
Political
Mind
Will
Earnest
Seek
Bear
Rational
Through
Open
Long-Term
Parties
Kong
Political Spectrum
Different
Interests
Across
Views
Apply
Consensus
Spectrum
We should widen our economic base and encourage businesses to move up the value chain and increase job diversity.
Carrie Lam
Job
Value
Diversity
Increase
Our
Economic
Encourage
Up
Move
Should
Businesses
Chain
Base
A well-educated, hard-working, flexible, and enterprising workforce has always been one of Hong Kong's greatest strengths.
Carrie Lam
Enterprising
Well-Educated
Greatest
Kong
Always
Been
Workforce
Flexible
Hard-Working
Strengths
Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.
Carrie Lam
Poverty
Relative
Definition
Times
Move
Acknowledge
Should
While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets.
Carrie Lam
Poverty
Considering
Monthly
Easy
Only
Poverty Line
Household
Without
Limitations
Understand
Line
While
Measures
Income
Median
Specifically
Assets
Given the relativity concept, poverty cannot be eliminated. Indeed, an economic upturn with a broad improvement in household income does not guarantee a decrease in the size of the poor population, especially when the income growth of households below the poverty line is less promising than the overall.
Carrie Lam
Poverty
Broad
Relativity
Indeed
Promising
Given
Economic
Poverty Line
Overall
Concept
Household
Households
Does
Line
Than
Improvement
Size
Cannot
Poor
Decrease
Less
Population
Income
Growth
Eliminated
Below
Guarantee
I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.
Carrie Lam
Politician
Civil
Civil Servant
Over
Been
Years
Servant
I have hobbies.
Carrie Lam
Hobbies
I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.
Carrie Lam
People
Compassion
Care
Disadvantaged
Concern
Lot
I think housing is not a simple commodity because we are so in short supply of land. So the government has a role to play in providing housing - decent housing and affordable housing - for the people of Hong Kong.
Carrie Lam
Government
Affordable Housing
People
Simple
Think
Hong Kong
Supply
For The People
Because
Housing
Kong
Providing
Role
Affordable
Short
Commodity
Decent
Land
Play
You have to understand that under One Country, Two Systems, we are a separate customs authority in the same way we are a separate member of the World Trade Organization.
Carrie Lam
You
World
Organization
Country
Way
One Country
Member
Systems
Trade
Understand
Trade Organization
Authority
Same
Customs
Separate
World Trade
World Trade Organization
Two
I hope people from the social work profession do not encourage labelling.
Carrie Lam
Work
Hope
People
Encourage
Social
Profession
Social Work
It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.
Celina Jade
Character
Me
Book
Dream
Always
Comic
Comic Book
Been
Play
When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.
Celina Jade
Character
Better
First
Online
Know
Read
Got
Audition
Comics
Bunch
Get
Subscribed
Just
Her
The reform and opening up of China hasn't been happening quite the way we've been told, like a small bird breaking out of its egg. Its more like a cicada shedding its skin, emerging ever so slowly. Energy is the last part of that shell that needs to be shed.
Chai Jing
Needs
Bird
Energy
Skin
Way
Out
Slowly
Emerging
More
Small
Part
Opening
Like
Shed
Shedding
Shell
Been
Up
Reform
Egg
Quite
Happening
Breaking
China
Ever
Last
I'd never felt afraid of pollution before and never wore a mask no matter where. But when you carry a life in you, what she breathes, eats and drinks are all your responsibility; then you feel the fear.
Chai Jing
Life
You
Fear
Matter
Responsibility
Mask
Before
Carry
Eats
Drinks
Never
Feel
She
Felt
Afraid
Where
Pollution
Wore
Breathes
Then
Your
When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.
Chen Guangbiao
Success
Work
Hard Work
Confidence
Old
Sister
Hunger
Brother
Brother And Sister
Through
Years
Died
Achieved
Hard
I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.
Chen Guangbiao
Good
Good Deeds
Small
Small Child
Since
Doing
Doing Good
Been
Child
Just
Deeds
I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.
Chen Guangbiao
Me
History
People
Remember
Carnegie
Marx
Remember Me
Remembered
Want
Chinese
Chinese People
Lenin
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