"The Chinese Government will create opportunities for you, and ask you not to lose the opportunities."

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, telling overseas participants to the China Development Forum 2010 that China was willing to enhance cooperation with hi-tech enterprises from all over the world

"The pullout is the price to pay for Google's move of politicizing commercial issues."

Li Zhi, a senior analyst with Analysys International, a leading Chinese Internet consulting company, on Google's withdrawal from the Chinese mainland

"I believe the currency adjustment that is being suggested by the West is the wrong way to go."

Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley Asia Chairman, warning that a sharp upward revaluation of the renminbi (yuan) would end up as a "lose-lose situation" for both the United States and China

"If the world is to thrive, let alone to survive on a planet of 6 billion people heading to over 9 billion by 2050, we need to get collectively smarter and more intelligent about how we manage waste, including wastewater."

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Program. The UN said in a report on March 22 that more people die from polluted water every year than from all forms of violence. An estimated 2 billion tons of wastewater is discharged daily worldwide

"Maybe the end of the war would be the date that would be burned in our minds more."

Lauren Lewis, a resident in Raleigh, North Carolina, talking on March 20, which marked the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq

"When people have problems, they don't go to the government. They don't go to the police. They go to the Taliban, and the Taliban decides. There are no files and no paperwork."

Moeen Marastial, a member of parliament in the Kunduz Province, telling a reporter about the resurgence of the Taliban in north Afghanistan