"The UN should truly change the mindset of prioritizing treatment over prevention and the practice of prioritizing peacekeeping over mediation, and should devote energy to early warnings, conflict prevention and peace mediation."

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, at the UN Security Council meeting on the maintenance of international peace and security and conflict prevention, in New York on September 22

"The debt crisis in the EU and the United States means those markets will keep shrinking for at least five years, so it will be difficult for China to sustain its export-led growth…I hope people's consumption can be coordinated with the nation's production capability."

Chi Fulin, Director of the China Institute for Reform and Development, at a forum on China's reform and opening up and world economic growth held in Xiamen, Fujian Province, on September 24

"Advanced economies have to establish a clear and credible medium-term adjustment strategy on fiscal stability and economic growth to restore market confidence, and they should also resist trade protectionism."

Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People's Bank of China, at the meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee in Washington D.C. on September 24

"China's rich have defied the global financial crisis with another record year of growth."

Rupert Hoogewerf, Publisher of the Hurun Report, a magazine that publishes the annual China Rich List, at a press conference in Beijing on September 22

"What is needed, and what certainly we hope to be able to help generate on the occasion of the annual meetings, is the political leadership."

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, calling for political leaders to have a "sense of urgency" on the Euro zone debt crisis and show leadership in resolving the problem, at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on September 22

"I am sure that United Russia will win and Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev will be able to build a new, efficient and young team and lead the government so as to continue modernization of all aspects of our lives."

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, saying at the ruling United Russia Party's annual congress in Moscow on September 24 that he would run for president in 2012 and suggesting President Dmitry Medvedev become prime minister after the elections