"A false rumor from the West"

 Wen Jiabao on the prospective promotion of Kim Jong Il's son, Kim Jong Un

The Carter Center

"We can't be paid more than the regulators who oversee us [...] if the regulators have to take a pay cut, we will take a pay cut as well."

 Jiang Jianqing, CEO of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

Reuters

"I don't have it with me, and you don't have the power to ask for it anyway,"

Film director's response to an ID request from a security guard who was helping the police monitor a film festival outside Beijing. 

Time

"If the economic slowdown is more serious, China will probably cut interest rates or roll out new stimulus packages worth trillions of yuan,"

Wang Jian, a senior researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission, quoted in China Securities Journal.

Reuters

"The root cause of the trouble is the overburdened welfare … the sloth-inducing, indolence-inducing labour laws [...] People need to work harder. They need to work longer.”

Jin Liqun, chairman of the board of supervisors of the China Investment Corporation, assessing the problems in the eurozone.

The Australian 

"In today's China we are facing tremendous challenges that range from the rapid decline of moral standards, to poisonous and genetically modified food, to rampant official corruption,'' 

 Ye Xiangzhen, daughter of Marshal Ye Jianying, who had emerged from the Cultural Revolution as the most important figure in the People's Liberation Army.

Sydney Morning Hearald