"The declaration of phase changes... is not simply getting up in front of press cameras or making an announcement. It's really a way of preparing the world to deal with the situation."

Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization, before the world body raised its pandemic flu alert to level six on June 11

"Our software is simply not capable of spying on Internet users, it is only a filter."

Zhang Chenmin, General Manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co., denying allegations that software developed by his company to filter pornographic content was a kind of "spyware." New computers produced or sold in China after July 1 are required to pre-install filter software packages

"The iron ore trade is gradually advancing in the direction of monopoly."

China Iron and Steel Association, saying in a June 9 statement that it "resolutely opposes" the iron ore joint venture between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, the world's third- and second-largest mining companies, for probable market manipulation

"There is so much fear, so much mistrust. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward."

U.S. President Barack Obama, pledging to forge a "new beginning" for Islam and America in a speech at Cairo University on June 4

"For too long, the education sector and the government have treated international students like cash cows, not like human beings."

David Barrow, President of Australia's National Union of Students, refuting the Australian Government's "discriminatory" policy toward foreign students when Indian students and community members rallied in Sydney on June 8 against growing violence and inequality toward them

"The far right growth is a really bad sign, and this is clearly linked to the economic crash. "

Gerry Gable, editor of the anti-fascist monthly Searchlight, after center-right parties won European Parliament elections on June 7