"My message to the Iraqi people is this: seize the moment, seize the opportunity to develop a government of and by and for the people. I come away from here believing that the will is strong."

U.S. President George W. Bush, in a surprise visit to Baghdad

"If the development and prosperity of a company demand nothing less than the complete devotion of its employees, I am afraid workers would be transformed into the company's tools for dominating markets and reaping high profits."

Liu Xiaoren, a worker in Anhui Province, on the death from overwork of Hu Xinyu, a 25-year-old employee at Huawei, China's largest telecom equipment supplier

"In the working out of a great national program that seeks the primary good of the greater number, it is true that the toes of some people are being stepped on and are going to be stepped on."

Russian President Vladimir Putin, after the authorities arrested Aleksei Barinov for alleged corruption, the first governor arrested since the breakup of the Soviet Union

"Although Iraqis are happy at the killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, it does not mean the end of bloodshed in Iraq. As long as the occupation continues, the insurgents will keep up their criminal actions under the pretext of opposing the occupation."

Commentary from Iraqi news website Kitabat

"South Korea argues that the median line of its exclusive economic zone should be calculated on the premise that the islands [known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea] belong to Seoul, while Japan argues on the premise that we own the islands."

An unnamed Japanese official who participated in the Japan-South Korea boundary talks that reopened June 12 after a six-year suspension