"There is no so-called grain reserve crisis in China."

Nie Zhenbang, Director of the State Administration of Grains, referring to a recent report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, saying that the proportion of the global grain storage and consumption had dropped to 20 percent, the lowest in the past 30 years

"I know very well that some people think of China's growth as a threat. We want to make it an opportunity. I have told the Chinese: ‘You have to help us, you have to make the case that it's good for the global economy.'"

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, warning in an interview with the Financial Times on March 3 that protectionist sentiment was rising in the 27-nation EU as countries perceived Chinese growth as a threat

"If the prices are high, definitely they are not due to a lack of crude. They are due to what's happening in the U.S."

Chakib Khelil, President of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, after the 13-member cartel decided on March 5 to maintain its official production quotas. OPEC accused U.S. economic "mismanagement" of pushing oil prices to new record highs

"Let the spirit of healing begin today. Let it begin now."

Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, after his mediation helped Kenya's rival political leaders reach a power-sharing deal on February 28 to end the country's worst crisis since independence in 1963

"This (the coverage) is war reduced to entertainment, willingly ignorant of the truth that young men like Harry, both British and Afghan, are dying violent pointless deaths in Helmand province."

Leo Docherty, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, writing in the Independent on March 2, in response to the media mania about Britain's Prince Harry's military service in Afghanistan