"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 Ethnic Museum, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

“在人口往城市流動的過程中，我們還把每一種文化的淵源給他斷了，然后迫使它換一種生存方式。”

——王平（全國政協(xié)委員、北京中華民族博物館館長）

"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

“有些學(xué)者、教授確實是很無恥的，他們拿這些錢（科研經(jīng)費）去做很不好的事情。”

——孫憲忠（人大代表、中國社會科學(xué)院法學(xué)研究所民法室主任）

"Nowadays, county officials often change their predecessors' 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

“一些地方政府官員老是有新招，為了政績和向上升，上臺的新官老是搞新思路。”

——孟學(xué)農(nóng)（全國政協(xié)委員、全國政協(xié)社會和法制委員會主任）

"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 mainstream values in our society."

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

“出現(xiàn)目前這種道德滑坡的狀況，人人都很憂慮，人人都很痛心疾首。但實際上，冰凍三尺并非一日之寒，出現(xiàn)這些情況，涉及我們幾十年來的教育方法問題，或者說社會的主流價值倡導(dǎo)出現(xiàn)了問題。”

——莫言（政協(xié)委員、諾貝爾文學(xué)獎獲得者）

（中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 陳丹妮）