‘I can tell you that here at G20, when the prime minister speaks, people listen.’
- Barack Obama on Manmohan Singh at the G20 Summit at Toronto.

‘If you look at any counter-insurgency campaign throughout history there's always a point at which you start to negotiate with each other, probably through proxies in the first instance, and I don't know when that will happen.’
- British Chief of the General Staff and former ISAF commander General Sir David Richards in Afghanistan quoted while advocating talks with Taliban should start soon speaking to BBC's Radio 4.

‘The Chinese will come to Sri Lanka, build some projects and go, but the Indians will come here, they will build and they will stay. This is the difference in our relations with China and India.’
- Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa told The Times of India in a two-hour long interview at his 'Temple Trees' residence in Colombo last week.

‘I sent a message to one of them, telling him these resolutions that you pass (in the UN against Iran) resemble used napkins that need to be thrown to the garbage can.’
- Iran's Fars News Agency quoted Mr. Ahmadinejad.

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