"We are cutting off the people from their cultural origins by forcing them to relocate to a new place where they have to change their way of life."

--WANG PING, curator of the China Ethnic¹ Museum, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

“在人口往城市流动的过程中，我们还把每一种文化的渊源给他断了，然后迫使它换一种生存方式。”

——王平（全国政协委员、北京中华民族博物馆馆长）

"Some scholars and professors are very shameless indeed that they are doing bad things with the fund."

--SUN XIANZHONG, a deputy to the National People's Congress and professor at the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

“有些学者、教授确实是很无耻的，他们拿这些钱（科研经费）去做很不好的事情。”

——孙宪忠（人大代表、中国社会科学院法学研究所民法室主任）

"Nowadays, county officials often change their predecessors²' policies under the pressure of creating new achievements, instead of sticking to the consistent policies of decades."

--MENG XUENONG, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

“一些地方政府官员老是有新招，为了政绩和向上升，上台的新官老是搞新思路。”

——孟学农（全国政协委员、全国政协社会和法制委员会主任）

"Everybody worries about the moral decline and everybody hates it, but our morality has not fallen into decline overnight. This is the result of our education over the past few decades, or we can say that there is something wrong with the mainstream³ values in our society."

--MO YAN, a Chinese Nobel laureate and member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

“出现目前这种道德滑坡的状况，人人都很忧虑，人人都很痛心疾首。但实际上，冰冻三尺并非一日之寒，出现这些情况，涉及我们几十年来的教育方法问题，或者说社会的主流价值倡导出现了问题。”

——莫言（政协委员、诺贝尔文学奖获得者）