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“When we had a billion people, you said we were destroying the planet./ When we tried limiting our numbers, you said it was human rights abuse./ When we were poor, you thought we were dogs./ When we loan you cash, you blame us for your debts./ When we build our industries, you call us polluters./ When we sell you goods, you blame us for global warming.”
A poem posted on the Internet by "a silent silent Chinese," expressing the Chinese people's feelings that no matter what China does, it cannot win in the arena of world opinion
“Overall, although China is a net importer in the agricultural sector due to very extensive importing of oil-bearing seeds, the country can still cover its own rising demand in most major farm products.”
Central Agricultural Market and Pricing Agency, an agricultural market research group established by German farm producers, dismissing the often repeated claim that rising demand from China is the main reason for surging world food prices in a report released on April 25
“I reproach them, that the economy was not as resilient as it could have been due to the ongoing tax cuts and the huge costs incurred by the war in Iraq.”
Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, blaming Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the government of President George W. Bush for the U.S. financial crisis in an interview published on April 28 in Profil magazine
“Eventually, if the world is to succeed in Afghanistan, it will be by building the Afghan state, not by keeping it weak.”
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, telling The New York Times in an interview published on April 26 that his government must be accorded the lead in policy decisions
“We have the resources and the know-how. But we have less than 1,000 days.”
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, inaugurating an ambitious global initiative to eliminate malaria in Africa by the end of 2010, including the delivery of 250-million insecticide-treated beds, on April 25, the first World Malaria Day | 
