We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

We have had a long wait for democracy.

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