He was the Assembly's vice Speaker for six years and its Speaker for nine. He pursued the Confucian ideal of "personal cultivation, family regulation, orderly government and national peace."
謝先生主持省政，富有創意，觀念新穎，但更重視向下扎根和普惠大眾的工作，而其治事公勤、深入民間，深能體會蔣先生愛民親民的精神。