"China has only exported three wind turbines to the United States."

Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Bureau, criticizing the United States' launching of a probe into Chinese clean energy policies. Zhang rejected charges China's wind power bid showed preference for Chinese enterprises and discriminated against foreign companies

"China's experience shows that its extraordinary economic performance also came with notable progress in some areas of human rights over the last two decades."

Anders Kompass, Director of Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the opening ceremony of the Third Beijing Forum on Human Rights on October 19

"Asia, India, China, are too small to rescue Europe and America. Consumption in India and China together is just 12 percent of global consumption. Even if they grow faster, it is not enough."

Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, disagreeing with other economists' suggestions greater importing by China would help the world economy to any great extent

"Britain has traditionally punched above its weight in the world and we should have no less ambition for our country in the decades to come."

Prime Minister David Cameron, announcing on October 19 Britain would shrink its armed forces and scrap key assets as part of stringent cuts across the whole public sector

"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Berlin on October 17 talking about the failure to develop multiculturalism in Germany

"We are facing the possibility of widespread drought in coming decades, but this has yet to be fully recognized by both the public and the climate change research community."

Dai Aiguo, scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, on his study that shows large swathes of the planet could experience extreme drought within the next 30 years unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut