Quotations
When he was in office, his words sometimes were criticised by others.
- "Call me 'Ah Chung'(「阿松」) instead of the job title," on the first day he came to office.
- "It is better for the public to know how to catch fish than for the government give fish away," when he was asked whether the government planned to utilise a HKD 40 billion reserve. (21 August 2001)
- "One day, when I was at my previous job, I discovered that somebody delivered Chinese soup to our office... We should promote creative industry."
- He concluded the economic situation in Hong Kong as "What goes up, must come down" after the announcement of a budget. However, his choice for a Chinese idiom with a somewhat equivalent meaning ("有咁耐風流,有咁耐折墮", which roughly translates to "You will suffer for as long as you have been enjoying life") was criticised as being in poor taste.
- "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times", he adopted Charles Dickens' words in the first statement in the Address of the financial budget 2003–04.
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)