14 East Asia Quotes for You to Enjoy

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.' Norman Schwarzkopf

Fight Sometimes Honor Country Young Duty Field Every Our Saw Background East East Asia Point Learned West West Point Motto Southeast Southeast Asia American Die Middle Young Americans Middle East Race Asia Rice Gallant Meaning Sands Fullest Creed

My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism. Chung Mong-joon

Culture Vision East East Asia Tourism Economy Terms Make Center Asia

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. Elliott Abrams

Life Me Rights Long First Met Military Human Rights State State Department Secretary Ruling Kim East East Asia Threatened Directed Had He Him Because Korean Reagan Department Bureau Human Regime Asia Whose Shunned Assistant

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century. Fidel Castro

Power First Half Caribbean East East Asia Colonial Part True Over Islands Australia Dominion North North America America Africa Middle Middle East Asia Century Use England Large Many Large Part

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. Laurie Helgoe

Silence Privacy Culture Communication Value Values Style Unlike Say Those Characteristic East East Asia Direct Restraint More Finland Individualism Noisy Qualities Dominant Germany America Which Asia Fast-Paced Societies Associated

Most Americans, I think, know very little about East Asia or Southeast Asia. American businesspeople who have been here, they are very knowledgeable about this area, but the average American? No. Mahathir Mohamad

The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China. Martin Jacques

Example Power Ambition Framing Way States Claiming East East Asia Must Find Seek Steadily Share Primacy Instead Global For Example Era Coming Continuing End Accordingly Dominant Acknowledging China Asia Interests Should United United States Right

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. Norodom Sihanouk

What we have to do is make our way in Asia ourselves with an independent foreign policy. Our future is basically in the region around us in South East Asia. Paul Keating

Future Our Way Independent East Ourselves East Asia Make Policy Around Foreign Foreign Policy South Region Asia Us Basically

If U.S. mistakes in the Middle East helped Putin raise Russia's global profile, China's missteps and hubris in East and Southeast Asia, once called Indo-China, have opened up new spaces for India's profile to be raised. Sanjaya Baru

Mistakes Once East East Asia India Russia Putin Opened New Global Hubris Up Southeast Southeast Asia Middle Middle East Spaces China Asia Helped Profile Raise Raised

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. William C. Kirby

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings. Noam Chomsky

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