Park Geun-hye's Quotes

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

I will open an era of grand national unity.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

Different times need different types of leadership.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.

I have no family to take care of.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

I want to be judged on my own merits.