"The food issue is attributable to complicated and multifaceted factors. Countries need to view these factors as interrelated and take comprehensive measures in terms of finance, trade, the environment, intellectual property rights and technology transfer."

Wang Guangya, Chinese Permanent Representative to the UN, at the July 18 debate of the UN General Assembly on the global food and energy crisis

"If the rest of the world does not provide help to China right now, then what the rest of the developed world does from now on is insignificant. You have to come to China, engage, and share technology."

Lin Boqiang, a professor at the China Energy Research Institute, Xiamen University, quoted in an Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald on July 19 that urged Western countries to provide help to China's anti-pollution efforts

"Today, Iran is friends with the American and Israeli people. No nation in the world is our enemy, this is an honor."

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Iranian Vice President in charge of tourism and one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's closest confidants, talking on the sidelines of a tourism congress in Tehran on July 20

"He was very convincing in hiding his identity."

Rasim Ljajic, Serbian Minister in charge of cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, disclosing the situation of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a "top war crime suspect" who was arrested on July 21 in Belgrade. Karadzic had been working in a medical clinic with only a false name, thick beard and white hair to conceal his identity

"In sum, we think the global bear market is nearing a climactic point and a crack in the commodity complex will be a powerful signal for a reversal of the trends that dominated in the first half of the year."

Global financial service major Morgan Stanley, in the 2008 Q2 newsletter to its mutual fund unit holders in India