"Primarily, what we see with all these soothsayers and astrologers is that they're looking for opportunities to enhance their business with predictions of danger and calamity."

Sanal Edamaruku, President of the Indian Rationalist Association, dismissing popular eclipse-related doomsday predictions in Indian society before the longest full solar eclipse in this century crossed Asia on July 22

"What I want to remember most is the glance between Neil [Armstrong] and myself, with the engine shutoff, just those seconds after we touched down, because we had just completed the most critical door opening for exploration in all of humanity."

Buzz Aldrin, the second person to step onto the Moon after Neil Armstrong, speaking on the Fox News Sunday program on July 19. Forty years ago on July 20, the crew of the Apollo 11 mission completed mankind's first walk on the surface of the Moon

"The tendency is to think of security only in military or state security terms. But the security of people themselves is threatened not just by conflict and civil unrest, but also by environmental degradation, discrimination, unemployment, poverty and hunger."

Amat Al Alim Alsoswa, Director of the UN Development Program's Regional Bureau for Arab States, in response to the Arab Human Development Report 2009 released on July 22 that says what's missing in the Arab world is "human security—the kind of material and moral foundation that secures lives, livelihoods and an acceptable quality of life for the majority"

"If the foreign exchange reserve can produce reasonable returns, it is good enough."

Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central banker, rejecting to use the country's $2.13-trillion foreign exchange reserves as a profit-oriented investment fund in a speech at Peking University on July 17

"In terms of the pace of improvement, it means they've been doing more than the United States over the last five years."

Jonathan Lash, President of the World Resources Institute and former Co-chairman of the Council on Sustainable Development during the Clinton administration, recognizing China's "huge step" in reducing its carbon footprint in an interview with Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post on July 21