| "The vote today is both an end and a beginning. Hong Kong will no longer be the same."
Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, welcoming the passage of the 2012 constitutional reform package by the region's legislature on June 24 and 25. Tsang said the package laid a solid foundation for the community to pursue detailed arrangements for universal suffrage according to the established timetable
"I don't think it is appropriate for us to have a one-size-fit-all bank levy."
Zheng Xiaosong, Director of the International Department of China's Ministry of Finance, suggesting countries should be allowed to decide independently on whether and how to introduce the EU-backed bank levy at a June 26 press conference on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Toronto, Canada
"We will not do things like pouring oil on the fire."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, rejecting criticisms over China's stance on the Korean Peninsula situation at a regular news briefing on June 29
"Chinese society urgently needs a transformation to prevent recent attacks on children from recurring, requiring philanthropic efforts to find out and cultivate people's responsibility to society."
Wang Zhenyao, former Director of the Social Welfare and Charity Promotion Department of China's Ministry of Civil Affairs who has quit his official post to head a newly-founded civil philanthropic institute
"When the house was on fire, we all knew what to do: get a hose. Today it becomes more difficult to find common ground."
Angel Gurria, Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, speaking at the G20 summit in Toronto, where world leaders agreed to halve national budget deficits by 2013
"We've been waiting for 52 years. Today I've waited three hours, but I don't mind."
Alassane Sylla, a state electricity company worker in Guinea, before casting a vote in the June 27 presidential election, which was seen as the first democratic poll ending a dictatorial regime in the West African country since its independence in 1958 | 
