PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteNo one has any doubts that our tandem will only get stronger.close quote

New Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, during his Inauguration speech last week, in which he also announced that his mentor and predecessor, Vladimir Putin, would become prime minister

 
 
open quoteWe are in a long line of nations who are ready, willing and able to help, but also, of course, in a long line of nations the Burmese don't trust.close quote

U.S. Ambassador Eric John, explaining why international aid has been so slow to reach Burma in the wake of last week's cyclone, which killed at least 63,000, according to U.N. estimates

 
 
open quoteWhen the cartels are weakest is when they become most violent.close quote

Mexican author Jorge Fernández, after assassins gunned down the acting chief of Mexico's federal police, Edgar Millán Gómez, and two deputies in separate revenge shootings last week

 
 
open quoteI am looking all of you in the eye, and I say I never took bribes, I never took a penny for myself.close quote

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, denying that he accepted illegal campaign contributions when he was mayor of Jerusalem in the 1990s. He pledged to resign if the attorney general indicts him.

 
 
open quoteLong live Tibet! Long live Beijing!close quote

The shouts of Tibetan and Chinese climbers carrying the Olympic torch, upon reaching the summit of Mount Everest last week

 
 
open quoteAt this point, Barack is the presumptive nominee.close quote

Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who has not publicly backed a Democratic presidential candidate, on the state of the race following Barack Obama's decisive victory in the North Carolina primary and his unexpectedly narrow defeat in Indiana

 
 
open quoteIt's full speed on to the White House.close quote

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, pledging to remain in the race despite the outcomes in North Carolina and Indiana, which effectively ended her hopes of winning the nomination

 
 
open quoteI am not a monster … I could have killed them all.close quote

Austrian electrician Josef Fritzl, who has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her

 
 
open quoteStop the language of arms and lawlessness.close quote

Lebanese parliamentary leader Saad Hariri, calling for an end to the clash between government security forces and the militant group Hizbullah that has left at least 10 people dead

 
 

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