"I'm doing my best job to make the case to Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham that their bill wouldn't help anything, and that's not the right way to negotiate with China."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, DC, before Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham agreed on September 28 to drop their legislation to levy tariffs on imports from China, a measure aimed at pressuring a quick revaluation of the renminbi

"It is quite preposterous that the DPRK, under the groundless U.S. sanctions, takes part in the talks of discussing its own nuclear abandonment."

Choe Su Hon, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) rejected further talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program at the general debate of the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly

"Everyone thinks we have the country's backing. Well, we don't. We make our decisions as a company, and we operate like any normal company. People are making too big a deal of what we are doing abroad."

Zhou Baixiu, Beijing-based head of Sinopec Group's overseas oil exploration and production unit, defended his company's overseas business with Iran and Sudan after criticism about state support and control over the deals

"We assess that the operational threat from self-radicalized cells [in Iraq] will grow in importance to U.S. counterterrorism efforts, particularly abroad but also in the homeland."

Excerpts labeled "key judgments" from an April National Intelligence Estimate, a consensus of intelligence analysts from 16 U.S. federal agencies, arguing that the war in Iraq has made the United States less safe

"China is speeding up the development of nuclear fusion and I think at the moment they are making considerable progress."

Karl Heinz Finken, a senior scientist at the Institute for Plasma Physics in Juelich, Germany, after China reported the first successful test of its thermonuclear fusion reactor, a clean and limitless energy source