| "We had passion and we had belief and if you have those two things, truly, anything is possible."
Christian Colson, producer of Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, which tells a story of hope amid squalor in Mumbai, India
"In the heat of the crisis, it's critical that all countries refrain from pointing fingers at each other or pursuing their own interests at the expense of others. "
Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming, in his article entitled Protectionism Doesn't Pay that was published on The Wall Street Journal on February 20
"If actions taken by the administration, the Congress and the Federal Reserve are successful in restoring some measure of financial stability-and only if that is the case, in my view-there is a reasonable prospect that the current recession will end in 2009 and that 2010 will be a year of recovery."
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in his semiannual address to Congress on February 24
"Even in the midst of this global financial crisis, if we work together and coordinate closely we can still reach better outcomes."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, pledging that economic woes won't wreck global efforts to reduce poverty, war and effects of climate change during his recent Africa trip
"The death of a language means at the same time the disappearance of a cultural heritage, from stories through legends to proverbs and jokes."
Koichiro Matsuura, Director General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The UN body warned on February 19 that some 2,500 of the world's 6,000 languages are currently threatened with extinction | 
