"It was a huge explosion, its force threw me a few meters away from my wife. I saw many people on

"It was a huge explosion, its force threw me a few meters away from my wife. I saw many people on the ground as smoke mixed with dust, and the smell of the gunpowder was everywhere."
Hussein Abid Matrod
An Iraqi taxi driver, on a car bomb that tore through a busy market in the Shiite holy city of Kufa.
"It's been disappointing that as a result of Iranian obstruction of procedure, it has taken so long to get to the point of beginning substantive discussion."
Christopher A. Ford
Chief U.S. delegate at a 130-nation nuclear conference, regarding Iran's rejection of a phrase calling for the "need for full compliance with" the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.