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- The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it. — Sellapan Ramanathan
- You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable. — Sellapan Ramanathan
- In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed. — Sellapan Ramanathan
- We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too. — Sellapan Ramanathan
- We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN. — Sellapan Ramanathan
- Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome. — Sellapan Ramanathan