October 14 that China is able to keep its economy on the right track amid the global financial turmoil

"Indeed, the U.S. economy appears to  be in a recession."

Janet Yellen, head of the San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, in an address in Palo Alto, California on October 14

"While biofuels will offset only a modest share of fossil energy use over the next decade, they will have much bigger impacts on agriculture and food security."

UN Food and Agriculture Organization, in its report "Biofuels: Prospects, Risks and Opportunities"

"The Warsaw Pact has not existed for almost 20 years. But unfortunately for us at least, the expansion of NATO is being carried out with particular fervor. Quite naturally, no matter what is being said, we regard these actions as directed against us."

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, at an international forum in the French resort of Evian on October 8

"Climate change does not disappear because of the financial crisis. Tackling climate change is central to Europe's future prosperity and to preserve the quality of life on our planet."

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso,

as the spreading financial turmoil is pressuring European governments to water down an ambitious Europe-wide greenhouse gas emission cut plan to assist their struggling industries

"As a Chinese American to be awarded the Nobel Prize, many Chinese people would be proud and more Chinese young people would be inspired to engage in scientific research."

Roger Y. Tsien, laureate of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, in an interview with Xinhua News Agency