"As the arms sales to Taiwan pose a threat to China's national security, China has the right to penalize the companies."

Zhang Hanlin, Director of the WTO Institute of the Beijing-based University of International Business and Economics, on reports that China might sanction U.S. companies selling arms to Taiwan

"While needing to do more to reduce market access asymmetries, China is certainly open to foreign investment, much more than in the past and increasingly so in diverse industries."

Robert Kuhn, an international investment banker and author of How China's Leaders Think, on U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke's recent accusation of China creating "headaches" for U.S. companies

"The search for justice should be pursued in a manner not detrimental to the search for peace."

The African Union, saying in a statement that a decision by the International Criminal Court to consider adding genocide charges to an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Beshir harmed the peace process in Sudan

"I want peace but not at the cost of women's freedom."

Farida Tarana, a female provincial legislator in Afghanistan, fearing that President Hamid Karzai's plans to mediate with Islamist insurgents could risk Afghan women's hard-won gains in education and employment

"No one has any reason to fear Europe, but everyone should be able to depend on Europe."

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, supporting the establishment of a European army in a speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 6

"This is an effort to stop the country's course toward the cliff."

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, when announcing on February 3 tough austerity measures aimed at cutting Greece's soaring public debt

"For a dinosaur scientist, this is like the birth of color TV."

Luis M. Chiappe, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, on new research providing evidence of the colors of dinosaurs

"Those who are already on the wrong side already have the book and already read it from their own point of view."

Stephan J. Kramer, Secretary General of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, criticizing Germany's refusal to allow a scholarly version of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (My Struggle) to be published