Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Because we can't communicate, there's a lot of misunderstanding.

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.