"People have forgotten about this in a market where the dollar bears are winning out."

Mike Moran, senior currency strategist at Standard Chartered Bank in New York, reacting to the dollar's fall after Chinese central banker Zhou Xiaochuan's comments that China will keep diversifying its foreign exchange reserves and reducing the share of U.S. assets it holds

"We are not expecting that Rumsfeld will appear in a court, but we are hoping investigators will begin looking into the case."

Wolfgang Kaleck, a German lawyer, after civil rights groups filed a suit with German prosecutors on November 14 seeking war crimes charges against outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the alleged abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons

"While complacency would be misplaced, our insights provide grounds for optimism about the prospects for returning forests."

Pekka Kauppi, a scientist from the University of Helsinki, releases a study result showing the world is recovering from deforestation, with China showing the most improvement

"It's really in many ways about the expansion of access to financial services to all strata of people. There are hundreds and hundreds of millions of people who are very economically active and don't have basic bank services."

Robert Annibale, Citigroup's Global Director for Microfinance, eyes the huge untapped market of the world's poorest people

"People have the right to have dogs, but people who don't have dogs also have rights."

Bao Suixian, Deputy Director of the Public Security Management Bureau under the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, defends regulations aimed at limiting numbers of large and aggressive dogs in cities