"We will never waver in our determination in pushing ahead the peaceful development of the cross-straits relations."

Chinese President Hu Jintao, when meeting with Vincent Siew, Chairman of the Taiwan-based Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, on the sidelines of this year's annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia

"Some Europeans appear to assume that a course of direct confrontation in connection with the Olympics and Tibet serves Europe's interests, and indeed Tibet's, but we will not be able to dictate the solutions to China's problems."

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, at the China and UK-Partners in Sustainability Forum sponsored by the China-Britain Business Council in London on April 15

"Every development expert knows that if you want a country to make progress, then empower women, educate girls, that's the way you do it and that's how we will tackle poverty."

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, when the Women, Faith and Development Alliance, a high-powered alliance of women from government, advocacy groups, faith-based organizations and Hollywood, kicked off a major campaign on April 13 to help impoverished women and girls around the world

"The overriding concern of developing countries is economic growth and poverty eradication and you cannot expect developing countries to engage on the question of climate change and harm those overriding objectives."

Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, warning that the global fight against climate change after the Kyoto pact expires will fail unless rich countries can come up with creative ways to finance clean development by poorer nations

"I think there's no doubt in anyone's mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, then Hamas will have to be included in the process."

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, saying that he feels "quite at ease" about meeting Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel, in an interview with ABC News' This Week airing on April 13