"We should change the criteria for evaluating officials' work. The supreme criterion for assessing their performance is whether the people feel happy and satisfied, and not the number of skyscrapers they build."

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in an online chat with Internet users in Beijing on February 27

"Housing is imperative for people's lives and local governments must waste no time in beginning the construction of 10 million affordable housing units this year."

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, at a meeting in Beijing on the program for affordable housing nationwide

"In 2010, China's turnover of the import and export of cultural products was $14.39 billion, an increase of 15.1 percent year on year."

Sun Zhijun, Vice Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on February 28

"This issue we have repeatedly informed P5+1 about our readiness shows we will pursue the path of negotiations if these countries are ready to hold talks about cooperation without taking sides and if they place emphasis on interaction and not confrontation."

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, at his weekly press briefing on March 1 in Tehran, Iran

"The international stance is totally in harmony with the Palestinian stance which calls for halting all kinds of settlements to get back to the negotiations, end the occupation and establish the Palestinian state."

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying there is an international consensus against construction of Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territories, as 14 countries in the UN Security Council voted against it on February 28

"I have decided to quit as prime minister. This resignation will serve Tunisia, and the revolution and the future of Tunisia."

Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, announcing his resignation on February 27 in Tunis