"What I have had today is actually the wealth entrusted to me by society. I'm not working to amass a fortune but to honor my responsibility to society."

Yang Guoqiang

"Country Garden is a virtual assembly line of home building for China's rapidly growing middle class. Mr. Yang's genius is that he has created a Wal-Mart approach to housing development for the middle class."

The New York Times, attributing Yang's success to his innovative business mode

"China, as an important nation in northeast Asia and also a contracting party to an armistice agreement of the Korean War, will go on playing an active role in the process."

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao, telling a regular press briefing in Beijing on October 9 that further consultations through diplomatic channels are needed to detail a proposal from the inter-Korean summit earlier this month for the leaders of the three or four parties directly concerned to convene on the Korean Peninsula and declare an end to the war technically ongoing between the two Koreas

"It [Blackwater] was not touched even by a stone."

Statement of the Iraqi Government on October 7, pledging judicial measures against Blackwater USA, one of the largest private security contractors operating in Iraq. An Iraqi government probe found that U.S. guards, together with Blackwater, shot 17 civilians dead in Baghdad on September 16 even though they were not provoked

 "China doesn't hold down inflation by producing cheaper and cheaper goods. It holds down inflation because the relatively cheap price of the goods it exports to our shores keeps down the price of competing items here."

Marcus Gee, international affairs columnist for Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, writing in his article "How the Chinese Dragon Brought Prosperity to Canada," published on October 3

"Why not a big city?"

Lieutenant-General Asad Durrani, former head of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency, presuming in an interview with Reuters that Osama bin Laden could be hiding somewhere other than the inaccessible tribal region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, as outsiders' presence travels fast there and it would be hard to keep it secret for years

"Marion Jones will be remembered as one of the biggest frauds in sporting history."

Lamine Diack, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations, responding to triple Olympic champion Jones' admission on October 5 that she had used steroids and pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to lying to federal investigators