"I don't think what I did was brave. It's something anyone would do in that situation. How could one sit and watch people trying to take the plane down, which would probably end up killing everyone in the process?"

Liu Huijun, a passenger on a plane from Hotan to Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, who joined the cabin crew and other passengers to foil an attempted hijacking on June 29, recalling the terrifying experience to reporters

"We must ensure that the new pension insurance system covers all rural residents and unemployed urbanites by the end of this year."

Yin Weimin, Chinese Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, at a launching ceremony for a campaign aimed at providing pension insurance to all rural residents and unemployed citizens in Hebei Province on July 1

"Our task is to create a real guarantee of security for the Russian Federation by arming the Russian forces with equipment capable to counter any attempts to offset the strategic balance."

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, speaking to a local radio station in Moscow about Russia's planned system to overcome and suppress any anti-missile defense for security purposes on June 29

"These investigations... as expected, are unnecessary procedures."

Thierry Herzog, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyer, commenting on French police's raid operation at the home and offices of Sarkozy as part of the investigation into suspected illegal financing of his 2007 election campaign by L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, on July 3