| "If the president were a criminal, how could the opposition faction consider him a credible negotiator to seek political reconciliation?"
Liu Guijin, special representative of the Chinese Government for Darfur, blaming the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir that was issued by the International Criminal Court for disrupting the political process in the Darfur region
"Advanced military equipment would surely be one of the parade's highlights, but not the only one. The parade will definitely bring surprises to the people of the nation."
Fang Fenghui, Commander in Chief of the National Day military parade, talking to reporters on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress. The parade will be held in Beijing on October 1
"When, in times of crisis, jobs become scarce, women are often the ones who are the first to go."
Helga Schwitzer, a leader of Germany's IG Metall union, calling for intensified protection of women's rights at a gathering marking International Women's Day in Emden on March 8
"The right moment has come today, for the first time after the end of the Cold War, for making real progress in resuming the global disarmament process on a broad agenda."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, calling for an end to a decade of failure in global disarmament talks at a meeting of the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on March 7
"It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda-and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology."
U.S. President Barack Obama, after signing an Executive Order on March 10 to end the federal funding ban for stem cell research | 
