"A lot of us are hurting right now. we are affected by the crisis in Detroit a lot more than people realize."
—Bruce Thomas on the state of car dealers in the U.S.

"The resurgent Russian threat, if you want to call it that, is not uniting the Alliance, it's dividing it."
—Jonathan Marcus on NATO

"There's this picture of this out-of-place, older white man with these two rappers, basically saying go out and vote. I think every young person looks at that and says: I know this isn't real. This guy doesn't know the difference between a T.I. tune and a Ludacris tune."
—Georgia Public Radio news director Susanna Capolouto on Jim Martin's failed Senate race

"A lot of people who deal with intelligence matters say this was a disaster waiting to happen."
—BBC correspondent Chris Morris on the attacks in Mumbai

"Right here in Belgium, Brussels Airlines has thrown itself in the arms of Germany's Lufthansa, which is much bigger and much richer. For Brussels Airlines, it was a matter of survival."
—Dan Michaels on the consolidation of European airlines

"I can see thousands and thousands of people...they are all holding placards and shouting slogans against the political class."
—BBC correspondent Zubair Ahmed on the protests emerging in India