| "Showing power and confrontation is not a solution to problems and not in the interests of related parties."
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, calling for efforts to cool down tensions on the Korean Peninsula in a speech at a forum on Asia-Pacific situations in Beijing on December 1
"Time is not with us."
Sun Zhenyu, Chinese Ambassador to the WTO, stressing at a WTO Trade Negotiation Committee meeting on November 30 the need to seize the window of opportunity in 2011 to reach a global trade deal, which was recognized by both G20 and APEC leaders in early November
"You have young people who don't know enough about AIDS, there is less of a fear factor about it."
Paul De Lay, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, warning complacency among young people is causing a new surge in the AIDS epidemic in the United States and European nations such as UK and Germany
"This conquest is a decisive step forward for our public safety policy. Today, we are turning a page in Rio's history."
Sergio Cabral, Governor of Brazil's Rio State, after the government claimed victory on November 28 in its crackdown on the slums of Rio de Janeiro after an unprecedented military operation to drive out drug traffickers and secure the slums
"Either we agree on anti-missile defense and create full-fledged, joint cooperation, or—if we fail to reach constructive cooperation—(we will face) a new round of the arms race."
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in his state of the union address on November 30
"Europe has taken action over recent months to tackle sovereign debt issues in the eurozone and it has shown that it is serious about the protection of the euro."
Klaus Regling, Chief Executive of the European Financial Stability Facility. He said in a recent speech in Singapore perceptions about Europe in chaos and the euro about to disappear were wrong and the latest debt crisis was moving EU member states closer together
"We are focused on catching up with the developed countries, and the gap is narrowing."
Yang Wenzhi, a science popularization director with the China Association for Science and Technology, on a survey by the association that shows only 3.27 percent of Chinese have basic scientific literacy, a level 20 years behind developed countries | 
