Top Ten
Top Ten Most Shameful Quotations from Modern-Day China 1st Place Children, don't any of you move! Let the officials go first! (An official in the Municipal Commission of Education said this through a loudspeaker to a group of terrified primary school students during a disaster in Kelamayi, Xinjiang) 2nd Place Didn't just a couple of kids die? What's the big deal?! (An official said this to enraged family members of victims of the flood in Shalan). 3rd Place Notify us when he dies! (An official said this to peasants who tried to seek help for Zhang Hengsheng of Hengyang before he froze to death on the sidewalk). 4th Place Give me a break, I've seen this plenty of times before! (An official in Dingzhou said this to local residents who got down on their knees to beg him for more assistance). 5th Place Everyone is welcome to come to China. It's safe, there's no SARS! (An official in the Ministry of Health made this declaration in public right before the truth about the extent of SARS infections was uncovered). 6th Place This operation was good for these girls. We did this operation solely for the greater public good. (A doctor at the Eastern City Hospital made this comment about a uterus removal operation done on two mentally disabled 14-year-old girls sent to his hospital from the Nantong Child Welfare Center in Jiangsu Province). 7th Place Whether or not justice was served should be determined by the final results. While the original results of this case were wrong, they were corrected. Doesn't this show that justice has been served? (Regarding the She Xianglin case, in which a man served 11 years for the murder of his wife until his wife returned home one day, completely unharmed, from another city. A judge from the case shared his opinion with the media). 8th Place I saw us as the servants of the people, so the people should pay for what we eat, what we wear, what we do... (Ma Hongmei, Former Vice Mayor of Shanwei in Guangdong Province said this when arrested for corruption). 9th Place If you've got the heart to do it, then you've still got your dreams, so just go ahead and start over! (Song on a CCTV commercial supposedly providing spiritual support to laid-off workers). 10th Place Go look for whoever it was you were working for! The government doesn't owe you any money! (An official in the Jixi Municipal Government in Heilongjiang Province said this to migrant workers seeking help in getting unpaid wages).
