"We have different priorities in policy design and different approaches in engaging the African continent. But we have to ensure that cooperation would be a win-win trilateral process."

Liu Guijin, China's special envoy on African affairs, on the need for increased trilateral cooperation to integrate the interests of China and the Western world in Africa in his speed at the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa

"Only those who have held the office of prime minister can understand the full weight of its responsibilities and its great capacity for good."

Gordon Brown, in his farewell address outside 10 Downing Street after quitting as British prime minister on May 11

"The governments have not decided a coherent policy. They are not prepared. Some of them even tend to deny the issue. If they fail, there is a risk and global governance will be dysfunctional."

James Kynge, editor of China Confidential, a Financial Times publication, calling on Western countries to be prepared to change the mechanisms of global governance to accommodate an emerging China

"This is shock and awe, Part II and in 3-D."

Marco Annunziata, chief economist at Italy's UniCredit Group, after the euro zone's 16 finance ministers unveiled a sweeping trillion-dollar crisis fund to defend the euro and European Monetary Union from potential collapse

"We don't call them orphans because they could have family."

Edward Carwardine, spokesman of the UN International Children's Emergency Fund in Haiti, where families that could barely afford to feed their children before the earthquake are increasingly abandoning them in the hope rescue organizations will offer them a better life

"In such a moment you are no longer alive. There is no more air, only dust."

Vladimir Goloshapov, survivor of double explosions in a Siberian coal shaft on May 8 and 9 that have, so far, resulted in at least 60 deaths