“I’ve told myself over and over during this (Republic of China 2020 legislative) election that: "You can't pretend to be someone else."”

—  Lai Pin-yu

I hope that voters can see my regular self, and that the Lai Pin-yu during election campaigning is the same as the regular Lai Pin-yu.

Lai Pin-yu (2020) cited in " From the Sunflower Movement to the DPP: An Interview with Lai Pin-yu https://newbloommag.net/2020/01/03/lai-pin-yu-interview/" on New Bloom, 11 January 2020.

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