"Violence is going to continue, but this is a place that has come a very long way."

"Violence is going to continue, but this is a place that has come a very long way."
Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of state, on the political progress in Afghanistan four years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled the repressive Taliban regime.
"The road might have been broken, but the bonds of the heart are intact."
Shahid Ahmed
A 29-year-old Pakistani fashion photographer who lost at least five relatives in Saturday's magnitude-7.6 quake, Pakistan's worst on record.
"It was like watching the tsunami come at me, because all of a sudden, here comes the mud."
Linda Pelow
On the floodwaters that surrounded her house in Alstead, N.H.