"We need to listen to people's voices extensively and pool the people's wisdom when we take actions and make decisions. The Web is an important channel for us to understand the concerns of the public and assemble the wisdom of the public."

Chinese President Hu Jintao, when visiting people.com.cn, a leading news portal, on June 20

"A hundred years ago, the Western world already predicted that if every Chinese wore one more item of clothing and lit up one more oil lamp, that would form a huge market. Unfortunately, when China's purchasing demand was realized through development, everyone felt there was something wrong."

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, blaming trade protectionism in a speech delivered at a banquet in honor of him that was jointly hosted by personages from New York business circles on June 19

"Most strikingly, the Dalai Lama is used as a battering ram by Western governments in their culture war with China. The reason he is flattered by world leaders and bankrolled by the CIA is not because these institutions care very much for liberty in Tibet, but rather because they want to ratchet up international pressure on their new competitors in world politics: the Chinese."

Brendan O'Neill, London-based journalist and editor of Spiked Online, in an article entitled "Down With the Dalai Lama" that was published by The Guardian newspaper on June 18

"OPEC has already done what OPEC can do and prices will not come down."

President Chakib Khelil of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), talking to reporters as he arrived for a high-level dialogue with EU officials in Brussels on June 24, as world oil prices reach $140 per barrel, a once unimaginable record level