"Ask not how long the term you will serve, but ask what meaningful things you will do during your tenure."

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“A country cannot solely rely on the government and opposition parties to solve all of the problems.”

“Where there is the will, we can make it.”

“A democratic country has zero tolerance for all illegal monitoring operations.”

“If the government does not adjust the electricity rate, then even God could not operate Taipower.”

“The then-Japanese empire suppressed the people of the Republic of China and took over the authority against our will, and so ‘Japanese occupation’ should be a proper term to describe the period.”

“We will not change what we have already announced to the public . This is something that the workers have been waiting many months for, and the government should respect the efforts they put into their daily duties.”

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