| "We must be able to deliver back to the world what was granted us here today: hope for a better future."
Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Danish Prime Minister, at the opening of the climate change summit in Copenhagen on December 7
"Teaching others how to fish is better than giving fish."
Yi Xiaozhun, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce, calling on countries to share their experience in developing "green economies" at the 13th Session of the UN Industrial Development Organization General Conference
"The aim is to show the government is unable to protect civilians and its own people and also to deter people from going to ballot boxes."
Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraqi national security adviser, on the motives behind a series of fatal car bombings in the center of Baghdad on December 8
"Despite some initial signs of economic upturn and because of the significant rise in unemployment and in part-time work, support measures should not be withdrawn too early."
Raymond Torres, Director of the International Institute for Labor Studies of the International Labor Organization, warning that an "early exit" from anti-crisis measures could postpone a job recovery for years and render the fledgling economic upturn "fragile and incomplete"
"If you're an engineer, you don't want to outlaw the great technology you've been working on. If you're a marketing person, you don't want to outlaw the thing you've been trying to sell. If you're a CEO, you don't want to outlaw the thing that's making a lot of money."
Bob Lucky, a former engineer at Bell Labs, on why the mobile phone industry fended off the line that using phones while driving could make accidents more likely
"So far, cooperation between governments is lagging behind cooperation between organized crime networks."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, telling a UN Security Council meeting for intensifying efforts to combat illicit cross-border and cross-regional drug trafficking on December 8 | 
