"Developing countries, such as African nations, are the most vulnerable to global warming and in need of financial and technological support from developed countries when facing climate challenges."

Su Wei, China's chief climate change negotiator, calling on developed countries to honor their assistance commitments in the Copenhagen Accord

"They (some countries) are blaming China...while China itself is being victimized by droughts...China's Lancang River has no water, either."

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, saying at the Mekong Summit in Hua Hin, Thailand, that blaming China for drought along the Mekong River was baseless and, instead, global climate change should take the blame

"On average, every two days we receive one piece of new information on an incident involving theft or smuggling of nuclear material."

Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C.

"I think in our countries we are better regulated, there is more transparency, there is better work in financial institutions, compared to some others."

B.S. Prakash, India's Ambassador to Brazil, explaining why BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) should play a bigger role in international financial institutions

"With today's decision, Europe sends a clear message that nobody can play with our common currency, nobody can play with our common fate."

George Papandreou, Greek Prime Minister, after finance ministers from the 16 euro-zone nations agreed to provide up to 30 billion euro in emergency loans to the debt-ridden nation

"It was like wandering across the surface of another world."

Bramley Murton, a geologist who piloted the underwater vehicle that discovered the world's deepest volcanic vents in the Caribbean. The vents are volcanic chimneys that spew out water hot enough to melt lead