"As the police chief, I bear the responsibility"

Guo Congbin, director of the public security bureau in Luoyang, whose team took two years to uncover two corpses and four women in a basement, where they had been kept as sex slaves. Having assumed responsibility, the security chief added that he had fired four of his subordinates and begged the people of Luoyang "to give us another chance."

Xinhua

“I'm personally flabbergasted by the publicity and attention"

The US's recently-appointed ambassador to Beijing Gary Locke commenting on the photographers who have followed him and his family to city parks and grocery stores.

The Wall Street Journal

"... land sales are dropping much faster than before, developers are losing more access to bank financing, and housing prices are showing weakness,” 

 Zhang Zhiwei, China economist at Nomura

Businessweek

 "... apart from the reincarnation recognized through such legitimate methods, no recognition or acceptance should be given to a candidate chosen for political ends”

The Dalai Lama commenting on his succession.

The Associated Press