The Vice President had exchanged opinions about democracy with taxi drivers on her way to the Legislature when she was a lawmaker, and was amazed by the extraordinary views shared by the drivers. The Vice President praised taxi drivers as mentor of democracy.
The Vice President told her hosts that the ruling party has set democracy, progress, uprightness, responsibility, anti-corruption, and anti-privilege top goals of the government. These are also the goals that each of the taxi drivers has worked tirelessly toward, she noted. She said Taiwan has well-established laws, and whoever violates them will not get away with it. Vice President Lu believed that all taxi drivers are against corruption and are diligent people, and she encouraged all of them to work together and help create a better future for Taiwan.