"The commanding tone of the report displays more bias than reason."

Yang Yi, Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies under the National Defense University of China, refuting the Pentagon's annual report to the U.S. Congress on China's military capabilities, published on May 25, for overplaying the so-called "China threat"

"The punishment was appropriate given the huge amount of bribes involved and the great damage inflicted on the country and the public."

A Xinhua report quoting a court official after Zheng Xiaoyu, former Director of the State Food and Drug Administration, was sentenced to death on May 29, in an

unusually harsh punishment for accepting bribes to approve substandard drugs,

including an antibiotic blamed for the death of at least 10 people

"Some problems have been raised and studied and I think this was a positive step…"

Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, after holding the highest-profile meeting between Tehran and Washington in almost 30 years with his U.S. counterpart Ryan Crocker in Baghdad on May 28, which Crocker also said "proceeded positively"

"Developing countries cannot and should not be expected to foot the bill for the impact of rich countries' emissions."

Oxfam researcher Kate Raworth, urging industrialized countries to pay the bulk of the estimated $50-billion cost for coping with the ravages of global warming before the Group of Eight summit in Germany slated for June 6 that has climate change at its core

"We need to put yesterday's discord behind us and to focus on the future together."

Robert Zoellick, after President George W. Bush nominated the former U.S. trade representative on May 30 to head the World Bank, replacing scandal-hit Paul Wolfowitz