"If we are going to tackle all of thosesuccessfully, by definition, we will raise our relationship to new heights."

New U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, favoring joint efforts between the two countries on climate change, energy, regional security and the global economy in his first meeting with journalists in Beijing on August 22

"The economic center of gravity has been shifting for some time, but this recession marks a turning point. It's Asia that's lifting the world, rather than the U.S., and that's never happened before."

Neal Soss, Chief Economist for Credit Suisse in New York

"The only truth here is this: Our country is technologically very far behind."

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, talking about the explosion at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant in south Siberia during a visit to the Siberian city of Ulan Ude on August 24. Russian investigators said a technical fault caused the disaster on August 17, which killed at least 69 people

"The big reduction in poverty China had achieved had a lot to do with its model of development and the opening of its markets to the world and the higher production that it was achieving."

Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

"There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened."

William Calley, a U.S. Army officer who was convicted for his part in the 1968 My Lai massacre, in which 500 Vietnamese civilians were killed, offering his first public apology on August 19

"They are not human. They are animals."

Mohammad Sher Shah, deputy provincial police chief in Kandahar, Afghanistan, condemning Taliban militants who detonated a cluster of vehicle bombs on August 25 that killed at least 41 people