"Tibet has nothing to conceal."

Qiangba Puncog, Chairman of the Standing Committee of Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress, on the sidelines of the full session of the National People's Congress, the top legislature, on March 7

"An aircraft carrier is just one kind of military equipment and nothing for speculation. It is like someone needing a long-barreled gun and others just wanting a short one. Demands of different countries are different."

Rear Admiral Cao Dongshen, also deputy to the National People's Congress

"China's investment in U.S. treasury bonds is a market behavior, and should not be politicized."

Yi Gang, Director of China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange, on March 9

"Any other discussion is a sideshow which will distract from the necessary [fiscal] consolidation."

German central bank chief Axel Weber, opposing the proposal of a European version of the International Monetary Fund to rescue errant EU states

"But they (Icelanders) are not ready to pay a very high interest rate so that the British and Dutch governments would make a huge profit off this whole exercise."

Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, after Icelanders overwhelmingly rejected a plan to pay Britain and the Netherlands billions for losses in the Icesave bank collapse

"The real solution is to deliver services ... rather than turn Haiti into a military state."

Ted Constan, chief program officer for relief organization Partners in Health, upon the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Haiti where they were stationed after the January 12 earthquake