"Chinese Catholics want to select those with good religious knowledge and love toward the country and the people."

Liu Bainian, Vice President ofthe Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, revealing the criterion for the Chinese Catholic society in selecting candidates for bishopric

"I'm sure he (Bishop Joseph Li Shan) will do a great job in uniting and leading us."

Sun Xiang'en, a Beijing priest who helped train Li as a seminarian, saying on the sidelines of the new bishop's consecration ceremony

"Mattel takes fullresponsibility for these recalls and apologizes

personally to you, the Chinese people and all of our customers who received the toys."

Thomas Debrowski, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations for toymaker Mattel Inc, apologizing on September 21 in a meeting with Minister Li Changjiang of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The U.S.company's recalls of about 21 million Chinese-made toys over five weeks have stoked complaints that lax Chinese quality controls threatened foreign consumers

"Credit conditions may not normalize soon, and some of the practices that have developed in the structured credit markets will haveto change."

Global Financial Stability Report released by the International Monetary Fund on September 24, warning that global economic instability stemming from credit-market turmoil in the United States is "likely to be protracted"

"France has not been well managed for a long time."

European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet, a former French central banker, warning in a September 23 interview on Europe 1 Radio that France's public finances were in "very great difficulty" with the worst public spending to output ratio in the European Union

"I am always surprised when people get depressed rather than energized to do something. It's not too late to stabilize climate."

James Hansen, climate scientist with U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who forecasts some of the bleakest outlooks on global warming, saying in a recent e-mail. The UN Climate Change Conference scheduled in Indonesia's Bali in December is poised to jump-start talks to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to curb climate-warming emissions

"Well, here I am…nobody knows when they will die."

Cuban President Fidel Castro, mocking rumors of his death in a TV interview on September 21, after a lengthy absence from public view of nearly four months