Vijay Nambiar, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon's Chef de Cabinet, announcing the appointment of Sha and three other under secretary generals

"Iam neither hawkish nor dovish."

"What is a unipolar world? No matter how we beautify this term it means one single center of power, one single center of force and one single master."

Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing Washington of attempting to force its will on the world at a gathering of top security

and defense officials in Germany

"We are confident that the implications of these developments will be recognized by market participants and will

be incorporated in their assessments of risks."

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven nations expressing optimism on the performance of the global economy that they said "remains favorable"

"In the platform of the new government there will be no sign of recognition [of Israel], regardless of the pressures

the United States and the Quartet would exert."

Ahmed Youssef, a political adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, indicating the incoming Palestinian unity government's policy toward Israel

"We'll make use of the interest rate tool and let the price lever play a bigger role in monetary policy."

Latest quarterly monetary policy report of China's central bank

"I want to win, but I don't just want to win, I want to transform this country."

Illinois Senator Barack Obama, formally launching his 2008 White House campaign in hopes of becoming the United States' first black president

"We suspect that one of the reasons for the current spread has more to do with trade in live birds than to do with the

movement of the virus through wild birds."

David Nabarro, U.N. coordinator for avian and human flu, speaking to reporters on February 9