"We have too many difficulties and problems to take into consideration given the fact that China is still at the primary stage of socialism, despite people's wish to increase the number of national holidays."

--SHAO QIWEI, director of the National Tourism Administration and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

“群眾增加假期的愿望可以理解，但我們處于社會(huì)主義發(fā)展的初級(jí)階段，面臨很多矛盾和問題，要考慮綜合平衡。”

——邵琪偉（全國(guó)政協(xié)常委、國(guó)家旅游局局長(zhǎng)、全國(guó)假日辦主任）

"Life is like a long-distance race, instead of a short-distance one－what matters in a 10,000-meter race is not your starting line, but your persistence and endurance."

--GONG KE, president of Nankai University and a deputy to the National People's Congress

“人生不是短跑，是長(zhǎng)跑。就像萬(wàn)米長(zhǎng)跑，不要太看重起跑線，重要的是堅(jiān)持和耐力！”

——龔克（全國(guó)人大代表、南開大學(xué)校長(zhǎng)），他認(rèn)為中國(guó)父母給小孩施加了太多壓力。

"If the government encourages you to raise pigs, then the right thing to do is to raise chickens."

--YUE FUHONG, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

“政府如果讓你養(yǎng)豬，你養(yǎng)雞就對(duì)了?！?/p>

——岳福洪（全國(guó)政協(xié)委員、政協(xié)經(jīng)濟(jì)委員會(huì)副主任），他痛批當(dāng)前一些地方政府違背市場(chǎng)規(guī)律過度干預(yù)經(jīng)濟(jì)，造成一些行業(yè)產(chǎn)能過剩的現(xiàn)象。

"It's not definite how I'm going to maintain close contact with people or through what channels I should contact them."

--CHEN DEMING, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former commerce minister

“今后我怎么聯(lián)系群眾，怎么個(gè)渠道，好像不太明確？”

——陳德銘（商務(wù)部前任部長(zhǎng)、全國(guó)政協(xié)委員），東莞“掃黃”后，廣東省領(lǐng)導(dǎo)想請(qǐng)他去東莞調(diào)研， 陳德銘沒去，認(rèn)為名不正言不順。

（中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 陳丹妮）